Fitzgerald to the seat in the House of Representatives, j which he sought, the electors of Lyttelton would, in effect, be wholly unrepresented in the Gen eral Assembly; for that Mr: Fitzgerald being Superintendent of the province, and in point of fact, representative of the Governor in Canter bury^ it would without doubt be considered by the House of Bepresentatives, an infringe ment of their political rights and the privileges of parliament, that he should in any way be al lowed to interfere in their discussions; for the House would unqnestionably.be as jealous of its privileges, as for past ajres,the Commons' house of Parliament in Great Britain had been tenacious of theirs ; the proposition was analogous to that of a peer of parliament proposing to sit in the House of Common!:, a circumstance never per mitted, as derogatory to the dignity of his posi tion, and prejudicial to free discussion. It would be as reasonable for his Excellency the Governor of New Zealand to propose himself for a seat in the House of Representatives, and for the Superintendent of Canterbury to sit in the provincial Council there, as that he, the Superintendent, the representative of the Gov ernor, and deputy-representative of the Crown, should he permitted to hold a seat in the house of Representatives, where he would have the power of revising the same measures, to which, in the Provincial Council he might already have assented ; and he (Mr. D.) added that should the buperintendents of all the provinces he returned as representatives, we should have, in fact, a governor-stricken assembly, not a free constitu tional representative council; such a proposition must be wholly unconstitutional, and could never have been intended by the Act of Parlia ment conferring representative institutions on New Zealand. Mr. D. then adverted to the disposal of the waste lands. He considered that the disposal ot the waste lands of each province should be committed by the General Legislature to the local self-government of each province—care being taken, for the benefit of all, that a mini mum price be fixed by the General Assembly— below which no province should be authorized to dispose of its waste lands, to the detriment or underselling, as it were, of the neighbouring Settlements or Provinces. 