PARLIAMENTARY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 79, 27 September 1894, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. | Per Press Association.] Wellington, September 26. The Council met at 2 30 D.m. The Government Railways Bill, Shops and Shops Assistants Bill, Westland and < Nelson Coalfields Bill were put through 1 the final stages. a i On the motion for Committee of the j Lands for Settlement Bill a debate lasting the whole afternoon took place. Several members complained of the crude way in which the Bill was drafted as it came from the other chamber and said if it had not been radically altered in the Waste Lands Committee of the Council the measure would have been unworkable. Mr Stevens said the Bill had been so amended in that committee that it would now be unrecognisable by its drafters. The Council met at 7.80. The Lands for Settlement Bill was committed. The amendments of the Waste Lands Committee were agreed to without discussion and the Bill was then reported. In Committee of the Factories Bill clause 64, which provided that each adult working in a factory should be entitled to half a holiday in each week was struck out at 16 to 7. This was the principal amendment made in the Bill -which they reported. The Council then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 230< Advances to Settlers Bill was further considered in committee. Clause 89, Col. Treasurer may raise sums by land bonds was under discussion until the dinner adjournment Mr O. W. Russell moved an amend* ment to the clause to provide that land bonds should be wiped ont of the Bill altogether and that the Treasurer should have power to issue debentures in New Zealand as well as in London. This was lost by 34 to 25. The House resumed at 7,80. In committee on the Government Advances to Settlers Bill, clause 39 was passed without further debate Clause 41, how advances are to be made. Mr C. J. Smith moved an amendment providing the limit to be borrowed by the Bill should be £1,000 instead of £5,000. After a long discussion this was lost by 86 to 26. It was decided that applications for loans not exceeding £500 shall have priority over applications for larger sums Clause 42 conditions subject to which advances will be made, Mr Thompson moved that advances should be made up to half value of security instead of twothirds as proposed by the Bill. The amendment wbb lost by 82 to 19. The remainder of the Bill was passed without much alteration. The Bill was then re> ported with amendment. Mr C, J. Smith complained of the action of the Government in excluding him from the caucus of the Liberal party held this week. Mr Seddon said Mr Smith had voted against the Government on sixty occasions this session, and how could Ministers under Buch circumstances look upon him as a supporter? The House rose at 3.80.