HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 505, 23 August 1871, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

August 16.

A tolerably full houso assembled this afternoon, .whou an unusually large. ..number, of, petitions were...presented, anditinjotiiaee of motion given. Among the. latter.ty.ere,(notices of motion for copies of all,the Correspondenco latM.papers connected with .the,oaßeJ_iJ.-QBpeoting EfcbSSt J_olfcg__aph, against Mr, Barton apd against.) Mr. Lemon ; also, lor a return of the number of people who haye been, permitted.the use of ! uhe telegraph free ; alsq,. for certain corres.poudenc.e audi returns respecting.,tho trade, &c, of.. tho Sau. Francisco steamers on the .cbiisti .The Hon.. the Prqniicr brought up the report of tho committee appointed to search for precedents with regard to the,election.of Mr. Williamson,.of Auckland City .West. The decision of the.. committee was thaJt-th'o.elopfi tion was null and void, mid that a. new. wi'it should, .bo issued. The .Speaker read a letter ho hod received. from Sir. David Munro, .an-;, uouncing that he had appointed..Mr. W. TL. Travers hisjagonktoi.CQn.duCt, : fISi t ,bis :be-, half, the inquiries into.. the allegaJiioiJs reri specting the petition ,9gaioSt;ljis..[,aleotioui The Speaker then explained that,.iu-{iue time,, ho would give notice respecting the day and houri when -'the^Wmmittee'-Jwouldji'S'itii'f'j'lin. reply to Mr. Harrison, the- Hon. the.Premier said tho Government did intend to introduce, at an early date, a measure" for-ttnr-better administration of the goldiields. of the West Coast of the Middle Island. • vSbmo cai4cuskj.n'i took place on a motion by Mr. Macandrow, (pcleayo t^bi'iu&inrf bill Jo appropriate.a, <y ; aulpor(iieuiflth ( | Towtfßolt of-£D.utyflin] as a cometery, as to whether the proposed bill were or a public bill. . During it the. Hon._W. uSea'M&r^ practice which has obtained in Now Zealand of planting cemetorio3 in the 'centrVoF towns, aud on tho most prominent bills to bo found, and against '^he motion-*o£ Mje*. Macandrow iirpprticul^. Hb-^aicfehs> had lelt «o strohglf on the innt«iaf lib ha"<f ll<k. se td^lose'-W Jco.!_ieToric 8 ih> tewn^ahd' citie»,— Tost,