LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 433, 5 August 1870, Page 3

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

(condensed from “ Daily Times ”) Mr. Travers moved his resolution in favour of taking the verdict of the majority in juries, in an excellent speech carried by twenty-seven to twenty-five. Colonel Whitmore has given notice of the following resolution:—" That the time has now arrived for a radical alteration of the provincial institutions of the colony, and that it is especially desirable to restrict the legislative functions of the Provincial Councils to the enactment of bye-laws, and the administrative functions of Provincial Governments to matters of a purely local and municipal character. That it is desirable that the Superintendents of pro■■vinces should cease to be political officers, ’and that the General Government shou.d introduce an Act into both branches of the Legislature without delay, to give effect to these resolutions.” Agreed to. ;It is rumoured that an attempt is going to he made to reduce the number of the members of the House to sixty-one, Otago to have the same number as at present. The Otago and Southland Ee-union Bilp has passed through the Horn... The Waste Lands Committee have reported on the petition of the Mayor and Town Council of Cromwell, asking fora commonage. The report says that there would have been no ground of complaint had the Otago Executive put the land laws of the province into effect Mr. Driver has given notice of the following resolution:—“ That it is essential fo to the carrying out of the '.financial policy of the Government, that the land laws of the Middle Island be assimilated on the principle of free selection, due regard being had to existing rights; and that the Government take steps in that direction during thereoess.” ■■;,(':• vm 1 ■ i •• ■ln the debate on the Gold Duty Bill last night, Mr. Vogel introduced clauses allowing the GoVorfibr in Codncil, 'on the recommendation of .the’Superintendent add Provincial Councilof any province, to reduce or abolish the gold duty ana miners’ rights in such, province. : The' proposal was warmly

supported by the majority of the Otago members, and was carried by twenty-six to twenty.four. On the resolution being reported to-day, Mr. Kynnersley moved the recommittal of the Bill to excise these clauses. Mr. Stafford declared them to be unpolitic and unconstitutional, as really giving the provinces the control of the Customs duty, and themotionof the recommittal of . Bill was carried by thirty-four to thirty-one. In Committee, Mr. Vogel offered to abandon the clause relating to the gold dutv, if one were adopted allowing the Governor in Council to reduce the miners’ rights in any province to 10s. each. Mr. Kynnersly refused to accept the compromise. The miners, he said, never felt the fee charged of £1 per annum, but they wanted the one right to extend over the whole colony. Mr. Vogel’s proposed compromise on the Gold Duty Bill was rejected on a division and the clauses objected to expunged by thirty-five to thirty-one. The Government withdrew the Bill, to consider what course they shouM adopt regarding it. Holloway’s Bills and Ointment.— Armed with this great antidote, the traveller, throughout the alternately level and mountainous districts of the Cape, is prepared to encounter all varieties of climate, for he. has the means of eradicating nearly every species of Internal dlcease, The on. dcmi is pervading alike our sea-port distii s and agricultural communities; along with the epidemics which at particular seasons decimite the population of our populous towns, suscepl ble of being controlled by the purifying disinfecting action of the Pills upon the animal fluids; while external diseasesand injuries arerap : dly and thoroughly cured by the anti-b flamatory and healing agency of the Ointment