PARLIAMENTARY.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 121, 12 May 1888, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

• (PER UNITED PRESS ISSOCIAfIOV.) Wellington, May 10. In the House of After the Speech had been read by the Governor in the Legislative Council several new bills were given notice of. , Sir Harry Atkinson gave notice of the introduction of a bill to amend the Chinese Immigration Act; also, that , he would, on Friday week, propose certain amendments to the Standing Orders. The Eon. Mr Hi&lop gave notice of the introduction of the Electoral Bill. It was ordered that the Judge's 1 letter respecting Wi Pere's election 1 petition should be entered on the ' records of the House. 1 The Premier moved for leave to in- , troduce the Eiver Boards Act amend- > ment Bill. — Agreed to. , - May 11. Mr Pyke moved the Address-m-Beply this evening in his usual humorous manner. Very little animation was imparted [ into the proceedings. Dealing with the t question of the reversion of the tariff, he j. said he was neither a Freetrader nor Proj tectionist. This statement was greeted } with ironical cheers by those members t who remembered that last session Mr t Pyke was Chairman of all the meetings f of the Freetrade Party. The speech was generally a reply to the sentiments of the Governor's Speech. Both the mover and the seconder, however, gave the Government some hard knocks in a quiet way, } Mr Carroll, the seconder, waxing yery J 1 wroth at the action of the Government in ' : pandering to King Tawhiao, who had > always isolated himself from Europeans, r Whilst other chiefs who! had fought and " bled for the country were comparatively • ignored. The Address was carried with- > out the slightest discussion.