PARLIAMENTARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3753, 26 July 1883, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. AVednesday. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. rills. Tho Parliamentary AVitncsscs Indemnity Bill Avas passed through all stages. Several local bills Avere read a second time. Tho Property Tax Consolidation Bill passed through committee. The Council rose at 4.20. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. AA r cdnesday. The House met at 2.30 p.m. DILL PASSED. The St. John's College Removal Bill was read a third time and passed. QUESTIONS. Ministers, replying to questions, said the Government Avould neither build a Supreme Court House nor establish a Stamp and Deeds Registry at Gisborne; the AVyndhamToitois raihvay avouM be completed as far as Makoreta Avithin the current year. NEAV DILLS. Tlio Mataura Reserves Vesting and EmpoAvoring Bill (Captain M'Kenzie) and the Middle Island Native A'illagcs Control and Regulation Bill (Taiaroa) Averc introduced and read a first time. RETURNS. A long discussion took place on a motion by Mr Hutchison for a return of the number and value of bricks made by prisoners at Mount Cook gaol. Ultimately it avus agreed to, Avith additions to make it cover the results of skilled labor at other gaols. Several returns relating to railway management Averc ordered on the motion of Mr Wright. LIGHTS AT JIANUKAU HARDOR. A committee av:is appointed to take evidence as to the desirability of erecting leading lights in Manukau harbor. NATIVE LANDS. Mr DeLautour moved for a return showing the several blocks of native lands, their respective acreages, and tho provincial or registration districts in which such blocks are situate, for Avhich certificates of title or CroAvn grants have been issued or are ready for issue by order, of the Compensation Courts or Native Land Courts, in favor of any number of OAvncrs being ten or any less number, since tho Ist of January, 1860, distinguishing bctAvcon the certificates or grants made under each of such Acts, and giving the number of persons found by either of the Courts aforesaid to bo interested in the case of each block of land, Avhose names are registered in tho Court, but are not placed in the certificate or grant, such return to shoAV in Avhat cases any restriction upon alienation other than lease Avas imposed, and the nature of such restriction, and also to give the names of the persons placed in the certificates or grants as the OAvncrs. Major Atkinson said it Avould take six clerks tAvo years to prepare the return, and he asked the mover to postpone the motion, as Mr Bryce Avas unavoidably absent. Mr Do Lautour said, if he postponed the motion, it Avouldbc shelved. The return Avas necessary to prevent the natives from being plundered. On a division the motion Avas rejected by 33 to 23. LOCAL INDUSTRIES. Mr Bracken moved, " That in the opinion of this House it is desirable that the Government should encourage local industries by giving the preference to articles of Ncav Zealand manufacture required for use in tho A-arious public departments, provided that in price and quality such articles do not suffer by comparison Avith the price and quality of imported articles of a similar character; also, that the GoA-ernment should encourage the development of our mineral resources by giving preference to coal and other minerals that may be required in the public service, provided the rates and quality arc equal to the rates and quality of imported minerals ot a like nature. 1 Mr Bathgate supported the motion. Mr Holmes moved the addition of the words, "By increased Customs duties, loAver raihvay freights, and tho construction of railAA'ays, trannvays, and other public works." Mr Turnbull aud Colonel Trimble opposed the motion and tho amendment. The debate avus interrupted by tho dinner adjournment. SCHOOL COMMITTEES ELECTION BILL. Mr Moss moved the recommittal of the School Committees Election Bill, so as to provide that the bill should not come into force till after the next animal elections, but the motion avus lost on a dh'ision of 39 to 11. Mr Steward then moved the third reading of the bill. Mr Sheehan moved that it bo road that day six months. He protested strongly against the bill, and said the abolition of the cumulative vote Avould deprive a large section of the community of the only chance they had of representation on these committees. Mr Rollostou did not think tho bill would do much good or much harm, but Avould oppose it as opening the door to further alterations in the present education system. Mr Shrimski, Mr Moss, Mr Pctric, and Mr Bracken opposed the bill. Mr StoAvard replied, and the third reading was carried by 3D to 10, and the bill Avas passed. BILL TO ABOLISH EDUCATION BOARDS AND DISTRICTS. Mr Seddon, in a long speech, moved the second reading of a Bill to Abolish Education Boards and Districts, leaving their administration in the hands of the Education Department. Mr Levcstam supported, and Mr Dick, Mr Holmes, Mr Fish, Mr Shrimski, and Mr J. AY. Thompson opposed it, although admitting that the present system of boards Avas not satisfactory. Mr Seddon Avas replying avlicu the usual adjournment for supper took place. On resuming there was no quorum, and tho bell failing to bring one, the Houso was counted out at 11.10 p.m.