PARLIAMENTARY NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 30, 4 August 1893, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS

(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, August 3. , Legislative Council. ! . The Waste Lands Coran)ittee re- { } commended that the Public Domains J Bill be not allowed to proceed. The J committal of the Bill was, on the K motion of the Colonial Secretary, set . down for to-morrow. The Magistrates Bill was read a second time. The Cheviot County Bill and the ' Wards Conversion of Rights Bill ' were read a second time. I The Council then adjourned to next ' <%. I Housb of Representatives. ' The Wanganui Hospital Board Em- ; powering BiH, Kaiapoi Borough Coun- J cil Vesting Bill, Auckland Hospital ; Reserves Bill, Egmont County Bill, Taranaki Relief Fund Distribution Bil), Riverton Harbor Board Empowering Bill, Wellington City Empowering Bill, Wellington Suburbs Sanitation Bill, Harbours Act 1878 Amendment Bill, Ocean Beach (Dunedin) Public Domain Act 1592 Amendment Bill, Kiwitea County Bill, and Dunedin Garrison Hall Trustees Empowering Bill were read a second time. Mr Fisher's Intoxicating Liquor (pupply to children) Bill passed through committee without amendment and was read a third time and passed. Mr Fisher said as the Government intended to introduce a Licensing Bill dealing with the whole question he should hand this measure over to them. Mr Fisher's Bill to abolish " tied " houses was killed on the motion for its committal. • The Fencing Act, 1881, Amendment Bill ; Agricultural and Pnstorftl Society's Act Amendment Bill, Deceased Husband's Brother Marriage Bill, were read a second time. The House rose at 11.45.