PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Tho Triennial Parliaments Bill, making Parliament to expire on 2Sth February, 18S2, was carried through Committee by 34 to 26. The repayment of LIOO,OOO held back by the late Government from the Canterbury Comity Councils and Road Boards would depend entirely ou the negotiation of the live million loan.
The Hon. .vlr Hall said that that evening in Committee ot Supply he Would ask that provision might he made for going on with certain railway and reclamation works, amounting to L 66.000, wi-h tne view of providing work for the unemployed. Tenders for the work had been accepted, subject 1 1 the sanction of Parliament. The Hon Mr Oliver explained that a vote of L 50.000 was wanted for prosecuting works required to provide labour for the unemployed. To the en lof October L 24.000 had been spent on works of that kind. They hail 2500 unemployed, and applications were increasing. As the season advanced they expected that other employment would he found for many of the men. The works on which they proposed to expend the sum asked were the WellingtonFoxton rai way, Wellington reclamation, Otago Central railway, and the Amberley extension. The motion was carried.
Colonel Trimble gave notice that he would move—That women of the age of 21, whose names were entered on the ratepayers’ roll, should he placed on the electoral roll.
Tho Government did not propose to appoint a Minister of Mines with an independent portfolio. The Miners’ Rights Fees Reduction Act, introduced hy Mr Pyke, provides th it after the Ist of January, 1881), the sum to he paid for a miner’s right shall he reduced from LI to 10s, The right of women to vote at elections of members of the General Assembly was affirmed in Committee of the House last Friday night hy 34 votes to 29. The Government would bring down a Bill dealing with the establishment of small farm se’tleraen's on the deferred payment system by- settlers to whom employment will for a time be afforded upon public works.
M r Ballance gave notice on Friday afternoon of an intention to move an addition to the Land Amendment Act, providing for the extinguishment of Wasre’Lands Boards, and the delegathing of their duties to County Council
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Dunstan Times, Issue 917, 14 November 1879, Page 3
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