PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

Evening Star, Issue 2961, 15 August 1872, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

Although the telegraph gives short intimations of the work of the session, and our Correspondents describe work done, Dunedin is too far from the seat of Government to enable the Press to keep the inhabitants closely posted up in Parliamentary proceedings. The Order papers to band by the last mail give a glimpse of what is to be done.

On the 13th inst, Mr Harrison was to ask for correspondence between the General and Provincial Governments relative to an application by an English Company that the Crown should waive its right to the prec ions metals over a large area of ground. The Orders of the day were twenty-one. I. The Electoral 8i11.2. The Provincial Electoral Bill. 3. The Regulation of Elections Bill. 4. The Government Annuities Extension Bill, 5. Imprisonment for Debt Bill. 6. The Wanganui Bospital Bill, 7. The Civil Service Act Amendment Act. All these are second 8. The Deceased Wife’s Marriage Bill (in committee.) 9. The Wellington College Bill (in committee ) 10. The Maori Representation Bill. 11. The Wellington Debt Act Amendment Bill. 12. The Dunedin Gas and Water Works Bill (in Committee.) 13. Hawke’s Bay Special Settlements Bill second reading. 14. A resolution to be reported from Committee (Tauranga Military Settlers). 15. City of Auckland Water Works Loan Bill—second reading. 16. Highway Boards Empowering Act Amendment Bill (in Commistee), 17. -The Northern Otago District Public Works Loan Bill (in Committee of the whole House), 18. The Westland Waste Lands Bill. 19, Supply 20. Ways and means. 21. Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill—second reading. The notices of motion were Mr Mervyn, to move for correspondence connected with the suspension of works on the Tuapeka Railway. Mr Sheehan, to move for a return of officers appointed for carrying out immigration and public works. Yesterday, Mr Carter’s motion stood first on the paper ; and on the Orders of the Day the work was :—l. National Banking and Currency Bill- second reading. 2. The Taranaki Land Claimants Bill, 3. An adjourned debate on Mrßorke’s motion, for the establishment of the seat of the New Zealand University at Auckland. 4. Invercargill Special Rates Bill. 5. Licensing Bill (in committee). G. Auckland Mineral Leases Bill (to be committed). 7. Interest Bill (making legal rate 6 per cent.) 8. An adjourned debate on Mr Reynolds’s motion; —That, in order to provide for the Colonial Legislature dealing only with subjects of Colonial importance, and to secure efficient and economical administration of the Government of the Colony, the existing Provinces should be abolished, and two Provinces constituted, one for the North Island, and one for the Southern Islands, with a Central Government dealing with matters to ho agreed on of purely Colonial concern ; and that an equitable adjustment of the annual charge arising out of the burdens of the Colony be made. Further, that a Bill to give effect to this resolution bo introduced during the present session. 9. The Resident Magistrates Act Amendment Bill (consideration of the report); and 10. an adjourned debate on the abolition of the Grand Jury System. To-day there are fiv-* notices of motion : 1, Mr Reid is to ask for copies of the engineer’s estimates of certain lines of railway. 2. Mr Andrew is to move that further negotiations with Mr Brogden shall be suspended with a view to accepting his offer to undertake the chief lints of railway in the colony. .3 Mr Takamoana to move that the petition of 554 Natives respecting the alienation of certain lauds in Hawke’s Bay may be referred to a Commission. 4. Mr Kelly to move that means be taken to test the commercial value of the magnetic iron ores of the Colony. 5. Mr O’Neill to move that abstracts and specifications of patents granted dining the year should be laid before Parliament. The Orders of the Day include the Drainage Bill; 2. Limited Liabilities Companies ‘Termination Bill; 3. Otago Waste Lands Bill (in Committee); 4. Kaikoura District Annexation Bill; 5. Nelson Waste Lauds Act Amendment; and 6, Th© Patea Reserves Bill.