PARLIAMENTARY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 5, 1 July 1882, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

(BY TELEGHAPIT.I ■ i Wkldixotox, Juae 28. Mr lyes gave notice for an address for a sum t6 be placed cv the Estimates to repay the unseated members for Wakanui ami. Fi-anklyn sN'ortb, Mr Watson and Major Harris, the expenses tliej werj pu: to through uiittakes of returning o fi.ei-s. In reply to questions. Ministers stilted that tlie bonus for the first shipment of frozen meal would be paid to -the .New Zealand and Australian L-inrl Company, when Goveniinent were satisfied tliat the conditions had been complied with Mr Fnftoh hriofly. • mored tliat tlie Educatiohi Act: should be amended to enable any School Committee to introduce (Tftble-reatHnK without comment-in public schools, subjyct tp a time-table and. convenience clause..' K« fliseliinied all hope • of'carryirifj the'niotio'n, but did it as a matter of duty ; feeling ussurred that the . ofJimon of; parents throuf^liout tlie. colony , was in his favor.— Mr M. \V- Grefn and MrMacandrew'iujipor'ted tlie motion. — ; Mr- Sheehan opposed, and moved previous question. - Mr Barron- thought the Committees had swuicient power :in the . matter now. — Mr Turn bull was sneaking j itt support of the motion when the debate was interrupted l>y the adjournmept. Mr O'Callaghan mQved thiJ jseconi reading of the Vagaraut Act Ameadmenfc BiH.— Sir George Grey opposed it, as ! ftoggins was a brutal form of punishuient. _ — Messrs Moss, Feldwick, and Tole opposed the Hill, and Mr Montgomery supported it. — Mr Petrie inovei. t^at it , be , read that day six months.— JMEr Bracken seconded tho motion. — On a division 26j roted on «acb side, add the Bill wus reed a second time on" the Sweater's casting v«te. •■ Major Atkinson stated that the Government proposed, on to-morrow week, to proceed with the consideration of the Standing Orders Committee report as to. . amendments in forms of the House. They would also ask the House to give up all Wednesday for Government business, and also to sit on Mondays in future f r Government business. On Friday Mr Kolleston. would move .the. second reading of the Lands Bill, which would probably be circulated to-morroW'-or Monday. He would himself . bring down the scheme of national insurance,; and on the Tuesday after, t^e Public Works tatemenfc would be • submittted. On ihc next Government day tliey WQuld proceed with general Government busi'-i nest, Local Government Bills, and Native Bills. The Eoads onstruction Bill, General Eating B 11, and Crown Lands B-iting Bill would be circulated shortly after members returned from Christ- ' ■church. Aitcr Mnjor Atkinson's statement the' House went into cevnmittee on t c Pensions Bill, Mr Sheehan taking charge of' ' it, as Mr Shrimski is ill. The Bill was amended to prevent it applying to pay^' 1 ment of pensions already granted. — Vrssrs Brown, liolleston, .EitzGerald, Williams, Hall, Atkinson, arid Kelly op. posed the Bill, anil Sir G Grey supported it.— After considerable further discussion certain amendme~nts~\vere agreed to, and The Biltwas reported as amended. Mr Feldwick moved to go into com- ( raittee on the Telegrams Protection Bill.' — iVI r Hutchison raf>ved to go in(o com.puttee tliat jJay, P'X ,months,. as it \j-as nn att«mpt on [he part of a small iuijiixT of papers to control the whole Pfesa of llje •<3fe»lony.'- L VI r Ivesi was-tn'favor of a fair measure of protection but would move nn iuuettUUH-'rit-in coin imitate to compel anyone claimjlig jt||ftt protection. 'to supply all papers on eqnal terms, otherwise a monoply would, be yreated. .