THE COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 8

THE COUNCIL.

PUBLIC DEBT EXTINCTION. When tho Legislative Council met ai 2.30 yesterday afternoon minor amendments to the Public Debt Extinction Bill were agreed to without discussion. FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES' DEPOSITS. The following new clauses ia lie Foreign Insurance Companies' Deposits Amendment Bill were agreed to with- \ out discussion:—"Every company required by the principal Act as amended i by this Act ( to make a deposit shall, it such deposit is not made iu cash,, pay to the Public Trustee an annual fee of £5 ss. Such fee shall be pay-* able not later than January 31 in every year." CRIMES'AMENDMENT BILL. Consideration of the reasons assigned bv the House of Representatives to' , show that certain provisions of tha Crimes Amendment Bill, as' transmitted by the Legislative Council to the House of Representatives, -I 'are an h> fringement of -the privileges of that House'was, on the motion of the At-tornoy-General, referred to, the Staad* , ing Orders Committee for & report. POSTPONEMENTS.' In the absence of the Hon. H. EL ' Wigram the wnunittal of the Christ"' church Tramway District Amendment Bill and the second reading of the Caj> terbury College and Canterbury Agri cultural College Amendment Bill were * discharged from the Ordei Paper and made orders of the day foi Wednesday nest. On the motion of the AttorneyGeneral a similar course was agreed t» in regard to the Inalienable Life Annuities Bill. The Council than adjourned untfl 11 '. ' p.m. ~ When the Council reassembled at.H 1 ' - p.m. to receive the Imprest Supply Bill ' No. 4, tho Attorney-General announced the Bill was not likely to' be ready for some time, and on his motion the Council adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning, when it will meet to paW the Bill. >