PARLIAMENT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, November 4. The debate on the San Francisco mail contract took place last night. Air Vogel’s resolution confirming the contract for ten years was carried, as against Air Gillies’s amendment, by 39 to 18. This includes pairs. The Otago members voted —Ayes ; Bathgate, Haughton, Macandrew, Al'Gillivray, ADGlashau, M'Lean, Reynolds, Steward, Taiaroa. Noes : Bradshaw, Cantrell, Afervyn, Reid, Shepherd, Thomson. The following addition was moved by Mr Reynolds, and adopted “ Provided that no such alteration and modifica. tion shall have the effect of increasing the sum payable as subsidy, or shall exempt the contractors from clause 6 of the contract, which requires that the steamer shall call at the ports therein named,” viz., Auckland, Wellington, 1 yttelton, and Port Chalmers. Mr Vogel made a long and able statement, in the course of which ho twitted Air Gillies for his inconsistency. Alessrs Gillies and Stafford were loud in their opposition to the contract, and weie considerably disgusted with the result of the division.
The Railways Bill will be taken on Tuesday.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2720, 4 November 1871, Page 2
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174PARLIAMENT. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2720, 4 November 1871, Page 2
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