Parliamentary

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 38, 11 September 1884, Page 3

Parliamentary

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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Wellington, Sept. 9.

The House met at 2.30 p.m

Sir George Grey gave notice that he would move in the direction of getting a sum of money on the estimates for supplying the people, through the Press, with a telegraphic summary of the events of the world.

Mr Fitzherbert gave notice that he would ask if the Government would be prepared lo supply the Naval Volunteers with cutlasses.

The intentions of the Government re the extension of the Waikato Te Aroha line would be made known when the Public Works Statement came down; meantime the bridge at Te Aroha would be utilised for foot traffic. Telegraphic communication would be extended to Danevirke. in the Napier Woodville line of railway. The Government had no objection to lay before Parliament plans and estimates of the Canterbury and West Coast railway. Provision for hospitals would be made in accordance with the existing arrangements. No steps were contemplated in the direction of amending " The Regulations of Elections Act, 1879." Replying to a question put, Mr Stout said that L 70,000 had been advanced by the late Government out of the insurance fund to the Waimate Plains railway. In reply to a question put as to the authority for the advance of that sum, Major Atkinson said that Parliament authorised an advance of L-0,000, and the balance had been given to the company by way not of advance, but as an investment.

On the motion for going into committee on the Married Women's Property Bill, Mr Wakefield objected to the measure as revolutionary and uncoiled for, and moved, as an amendment, that it be committed that day six months. Mr Stout, in reply, denied that it was^ a measure of a revolutionary tendency, contending that it simply pioposed to do what the- majority of parents did, in making their wills, vi_., provide that their daughters portions should be exempted from the control of their husband*. The motion for going into committee was carried, and on taking the chair, Mr Hamlin thanked them for his re-election, and promised strict impartiality in the discharge of his duties. In the House last night the Married Women's Protection Bill was passed through committee and reported with several unimportant amendments. This Day.

In the House the second reading of the Law Practicioners Bill was resumed after the supper adjournment and continued until 1.30 this morning, when the amendment was carried by 25 to 24, and the Bill thrown out.