HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 16, 18 July 1885, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

[PUB VNITID PBKSS ASBQCtATteJff.'j | Wkiaihgtojt, Jalj 16. „ Alf SWISS TO QVBSriOVB- ' ' Beplying to questions, it was stated that the Government were considering, , the question of the preserratien^ of the rock oysters fisheries in the north," with a view to having a report prepared.— The treasurer* of cowitiett Who had not supplied returns of balance-sheets woald be asked to do so at once.— Copies ef the statutes passed daring taehffcessioa lmd already been supplied: to lUnaaies in all the large centre*, tat the government did not think it d^iraWe to Ibeor the ? | henry expense entailed ra'sftadmWlhem * to every library in the ei»fony. ' ' . The Otago Harbor Beard! Letf*"* Bill, Tnveroargitl Loan Consolidation : Bill, Danedin Cattie , Market Bearrre Leu lag Bill, sad Napier Harbour Board Empowering BUI, were read a seeead time. Mr Lerastam mored the second reading ef the Employment ef Females and Others Act, 1881. Amendment Nf. 2. The bill, which prerided that extra hoars mar be worked in caseef emergen^r, and for changing the half hulidaj frem Sator* day te another day, was agreed to. .: Mr Dowaie Stewart mored the seooad reading ef the Bible Beading t» fiohoels • Bills.—The Hoa. Mr Stoat epposefl the ■ bill, and nured that it b» read that f day six months. — Messrs MaeaXdrew; Tbra* bull, Folten, andßraoe spoKe W farour of it. — Messrs Montgomery, Thomson (Aaeklaad), and Lereatem. opposed it. The motioß for the seoond reading waa then put and lost on a division by 18 to HOSPITAL AND CHABTTABIJE AID BILL. Mr Fergus resumed the .debate) on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill, and gare the Government credit fe> fheir endeavors te grapple with this important subject. • ».ft Mr Montgomery considered (heprppoeals in the meaaure would result in tb* lmpontion of fresh taxation. , „ ; ■ j Sir Julius Yogel explained fee oonoesiions the Oowrament w«re willing to nake as regards the inatitutioas under iie district boards. After sereral ob)eotaon« tcv%be bill had Men referred to by Major Atkinsjrtn, Sir Fulius Yogel replied, and toe hill was «ad a seoond time en the Toioat: " 4, J«w mll. ' Sir George Grey introduced e> Isfl to *nmde for the election of the Jvatkea of he Peace. ■ ; SAN FBAIf 01800 MAIL SXBVKfIb Sir Julius Yogel'a motion, re th* fresh lan Erancisoo mail contract was poetoned uutil Eriday nex^ia order to al»w a return to be prepared of the cost of . direct mail serrioe and San Francisco errice. This Day. In the House hut night after further* iscuseion the second reading of, the Land till was agreed to on the Toiofts. The tamp Act Amendment Bill and Deceased 'en»M Estate Duties Amendment Bill rere read a seoond tune without diacusion. The debate on the seoond reading f the Counties Act Amendment Bill was asumed, and after a disenssion lasting an our and a half, the. motion was agreed x The House adjourned at 1.90 ajn\