Reporter : Is it intended to make any alterations in tho law to prevent future transactions in land scrip, such as have been exposed in the recant investigation ?

Tho Premier : My opinion is that the best thing is nofc to issue any more scrip for any thing. Ido not believe in the principle of issuing scrip for any purpose.
Reporter : What do you propose instead ? The Premier : That we should pay cash. Ifc comes precisely to tho same in the end. Tbe money has to be paid ultimately.
Reporter : Then to whab extent do you consider the Government lose by the Whyte transactions ?

The Premier: The Government lose in this way—that outside of the province in which scrip is issued it cannot be put in by any one person for more than £500. Tho whole thing has been a sorry business, to sco unfortunate receivers of land revenues brought to grief by dabbling in scrip trans actions. The real remedy is to havo a proper audit.
THE HERVEY GROUP.
NEWS FROM RAROTONGA,

THE NATIVE PARLIAMENT,

The schooner Torea, which arrived hero yesterday from Penrhyn Island and Raro tonga, brought news from Rarotonga (Her vey Group) up to tho 18th ult.
The recently-accomplished federation of the Hervey or Cook Group, with a native Federal Parliament, appears to be working well according to a report of Mr Fredk. J. Moss, the British Resident at Rarotonga, and there is every promise oi a bright future for the native people of thoso islands.
