GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 643, 12 September 1882, Page 2

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

nous •: of representatives;

In the House on Thurslay,

The Hon. Major Atkinson said he would not indicate the measures the Government intended :to diop, but ho would indicate those thpy intended going on with. Tbeso were the New Z'aland .Colonial Inscribed Stork L-i hi. Ro ids and Bridges Construction, Counties Avt Amendment, - -; North Island Mdii Trunk Railway Lo.n, Customs Duties • Consolidation,' Rabbit Nuisance, .Sheep Act Amendment, .Rhodes' Estates Duty, IU lucation Districts. Amnesty, R&ngipo Murimotu Validation, Cemeteries, Greymouth Native Reserves, Registration of Births Deaths, &c, Amendment, Licensing Act Amendment, Mining Companies Registration Validation, and Education Reserves Act Amendment. The Loan Bill passed the House, after the item Seawarl Biisb, Kelso, Mararoa line £35,000 had" been substituted for Mararoa line £1. j. The Public Work*•■■' Estimates were brought down on Friday. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, ,;.''• Mr Montgomery, in a warm and forcible speech, attacked Government for delaying them so long, and Sir J. Hall followed suit in a milder Btrain. Major Atkinson replied, justifying himself and Government, saying that if they considered them for a week there would; be hardly one single alteration of,-importance, made in Hie. whole of them. On Saturday evening the House of Representatives began estimate's, but -did not finish them. The Council passed the Loan Bills. The departure of the.Rotomahama with tbe Southern members has been postponed till Monday afternoon.- The prorogation is expected on Wednesday or Thursday. The following are the Canterbury items in the supplementary estimates ;—Lunatic Asylum, Christchurch, rations (additional), £392; engineer and plumber, £128 Registrar of Births, &c., Christchurch (ad-

ditional), £50; Supreme Cou.it (Chrisbchnrch) Registrar (additional). £50. Railways—Gratuities to widowH of platelayers killed at East Oxford, £94 ; gratuity of six months' pay to the late? stationmaster, Opawa, £63 ; compensation to Mrs G. C. Hodge for loss of land at Lyttelton tlirouirh the action of the District Land Reuistrar, £19 I.Bs 9d,