This had a direct bearing: upon the line of argument he proposed to pursue, because it contrasted with the policy of the Government, who ignored the rights and liberties of the people, by effecting constitutional changes without taking the people into their confidence. How favourably would the system ho was advocating work as compared with r/hft. had been in existence. What fairer proposal could be offered than leaving the people of each island to mauage their own ailiiiiu, and of the North Island to bear their own peculiar burdens, and which they know most about. Did anyone believe that hearts nurtured here alone could feol much for Auckland, Invercargill, or elsewhere. They could r»ot have that knowledge which, as men willing and able to help their country, thay ought to have. The Native Minister had taken every opportunity to dilate upon the satisfac tory feeling that prevails amongst the natives ; but he had telegrams from all parts of tho North Island, which told him of tho very reverse of all this. By their proposal, he con tended that the prosperity of the country would be vastly improved. Immense runs would be cut up nnd made into homes for hundreds of families in the same way as was to be seen at the Cape of Good Hope. Let them continue tho present system, and instead of two civil servants at the head of public affairs, they w*uld have four or more, and still greater ex travagance in the future than they had in the past. To look at these proposals from a hu ancial point of he held that they Wrtuld bo the best means of restoring the impaired credit of the Colony at home. He denied that Government meant to carry out Abolition real and .true. He then referred to Sir D. M'Lean's visit to Tawhiao, and said that the Government meant to Ret up another Province in what was the richest part of the Province of Auckland, and where the protector of mur derers -waa to reign supreme. He thought the proposals he made were, too, singularly gener ous to tha Middle Island. 