PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2600, 17 June 1871, Page 2

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

In the afternoon, Management Bill al|r its stages, and was reported to tlic rfijgise- Mr Bastings moved that, in the opinWti\gf the Council, in order to encourage settlement in populous,goldfleldsTdietriots, the Government of the day should cancel any runs fib for settlement in close proximity to the same, p-ud throw them open under the agricultural lease system; the cost of such cancillation to be a first charge upon the revenue derivable from the runs ef the Province. The motion, .with a slight amendment, was carried, after a few observations by the 'Provincial Secretary. Mr Bar oil being absent, his motion respect; iug the non-contribution of money for Maori wars was postponed. Mr- Bastings brought under nocice the inconvenience caused "blithe delays in issuing Crown grants, which the Provincial .Secretary pointed out was not often attributable- to the delay department, as great care and frequent were requisite. After some observations in reply, the motion was caijrjied on frae voices. On the motion tings' it was resolved to to forward the petition of a number of residents in’ Tuapuka and Dunedin in favor of the construction of a ; railway? from JTokomairi o tp Lawrence. The Honorable Mr Holmes then moved that the material of the Moeraki jetty and the jetty itself sho Id be sold to the General Government, as part of the proposed railway scheme from Waitaki to Moeraki. This brought upon him the wrath of Mr Hutcheson, who, becoming, somewhat discursive, was rather unceremoniously called upon to confine himself to the subject. i\lr McGlashau, Mr, Cargill, and the Provincial .Secretary supported the motion, which, in spite of the opposition of Mr Henderson, was carried, with aij addendum by the Provincial Secretary, recommending that His Honor be requested to take s' cps to give effect to the motion; provided the f loner 1 . Oovernmput is prepared to-undertake the work at an early date , , The . remaining httsihe'ss "on the order paper was unrmpor- : t;mt;‘ancl, after going through it; the House adjournedito Monday. --