PARLIAMENTARY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 21, 26 August 1882, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

♦• ~ . ': [by telegbaph.] Wellington, August 25. PUBLIC ÜBBAjBIEB. ; ; Mr Smith moved, in the House to-day, that the resolution be reported from the committee (oubsidief to public libraries). Mr Dick said that when the vote £6000, on the estimates, was brought down, he he would also. submit 4 resolution as to the equitable distribution thereof. He asked that the resolution be withdrawn. Sir John Hall; suggested, that the reso. lution of the Government should be sub- . mi t ted as an amendment "upon' Mr Smith's r,esolutioa. By that nieans an opportunity, would be given for dUcuHsing both propositions. The motion was carried and; the resolution agreed to. PBOGBESS OP BILLS. . The Private Tr&mwaf s ; Bill wag read \ a second time. The Public Health Act i Amendment" Bijl parsed , with amend- I ments. The Resident" XTajpstrates Act 1876 Amendment Bill passed with amendments. The^^nterb^rjrKirers Act 1870 . Aniendtuen^ Bill- passed, without, amend- , ments. Tbe Patents Act. Amendment Bill passed without, amendments. The ' Council's ataendmenU in t,he Bluff Har- ' bonf Foreshore BiH and Small Bird .N ui- ! sance Bill were agreed to; LAND BOA ED BILL. ' ! On 'fife motion for the cbmmittal of the ' Land Board Bill, a loiig disCussion took I place, tn* com nitthl 1x ing eteatuallj <■ carried by 31 to 23 votes. :