PARLIAMENTARY.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 34, 30 August 1888, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

■♦ (PER UNITBD PRKP9 tSSOCIA f 10 V.) Wkvliw&ton, August 29. In the Legislative Council, the Property Tax Bill passed all its stages. The following Bills were passed: — Roird Boards Act Amendment Bill, Pub* tie: Works Appropriation Bill, Naval and Military Land Claims Bill. . - Tbe report of tl>e conference on the Native Land Frauds Prevention Bill and t)*e .Native Laud Court Bill wa»<agreed to, ThwDay. The Legislative Couneirthir morning ■■ read the Giaborne Harbor Board Bill » tiii id time, and passed tbe Mokau Moha- • . katino Bill witboot discussion. Tbe Cooncrl then adjourned till 3, Wemjitoton, August 28. In the House of Representatives, The Public Works Appropriation Bill ' was r?a<3 a third time and passed. I he Hon. Mr Hislop moved the second readmit of the Mokau Mobakatiao Bill dealing wrth Jowhna Jbfle*' elaim. The Bill wan considered in Committee* - . Mr Tai pua moved that tfre Chairman leave the chair. . -. The Hod. Mr Hislop ■ suggested that . the motion be withhrawn.. The Bill was read a third time and passed. ' ' . • The House then adjourned till & o'clock ; for the purpose of receiving message* from the Legislative Council, At 8.1& '■ ■■■ the messages were received, to the effect : that the Council had-agrecd to the amend* mentH of the House in the Boad BoardsAct Am ndment Bill. ; :. The House, theft adjourned. : 'J.' : f ',' "' l ■'"■"' ; This Day. ' In the House this afternoon Major Jackson called attention to a case of cer£ f tain natives who had been prevented giv- . ing evidence before the Land Court on" a case m which they were interested. Scut,- . angry were they that 500 armed men' , went out, ostensibly to shoot pigeons, but. - really to cut t&e survey line r jand were; with difficulty prevented. Several mend- .'i bers corroborated, and hoped (Government would loi>k into the matter.