PARLIAMENTARY

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 40, 12 September 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [PEE UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington. September 9' NEW BILLS. The Hon. Mr Stout introduced a Bill to amend the Municipal Corporations Act.- MrTole introduced the Supreme Court Reporting Bill. CAPTAIN BUSSELL'S MOTION. Mr Buchanan resumed the debate on Captain Russell's amendment to the motion for gfting into Committee of Supply, That the Public Works Estimutet should be reduced by £500,000, and Mr Moss's amendment, That it is not desirable to stop public works already in progress. He supported the amendment of the member for Hawke's Bay. — Captain Russell's was then put and carried on the voices. — Mr C'Callaghan mored an addition to the motion* : Provided that such reduction skall not' affect any public works in the nature of roads and bridges. He had great faith in the Government, and he was far from going into Opposition. Wellington, This Day. In supply — Napier- Wood ville and Palmerston, £J 14.100. Mr Holmes moved te reduce this item by £6,500; carried. Wellington to Woodville, £46,5-00, agreed to. New Plymouth to Fexton, £26,000, agreed to. Wellington to Foxton, £1,000, agreed to. Main Trunk Line, £188,000. G. F. Richard, n ok red the redaction by £48,0'K>. Item reduced by 55 to 26. (fbom our own correspondent.) Wellington, September 11. The Municipal Corporations Amendment Act was read a second time without much opposition. Also the clause pro* posed in the Counties Amendment Act, covering County Councillors and Members of Road Boards. The clauses are retrospective.