HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 23, 26 July 1895, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, July 25. The House met at 2.30. The motion hy Mr Carnell for leave to iutroduce a Bill to amend the Gaming and Lotteries Act in the direction ot abolishing the use of the totalisator was carried by 40 to 19, and the Bill was read a first time. The Coroners Inquests Bill was committed. On Clause 1 being put, the Hon. W. P. Reeves asked the Hous-3 to remember tLat one phase of this Bill would cause a permanent charge on the Justice Department of £ 1200 per year. He moved that the short title be altered to the Abolition of Coroners Juries Bill. Hon. W. Steward said the Minister had not the courage of his opinion to bring down a Bill to effect his object, but he must try and get it iu!o a private member's Bill by a side wind. Sir Robert Stout hoped coroners' juries would not be abolished. The Premier admitted that there was some force ill Mr Steward's objection to the course proposed, but be thought it as well to take the voice of the House as to whether these juries should be abolished. The Hon. W. P. Reeves' amendment was lost by 40 to 20, and the short title retained as it stood. The Bill passed through Committee without amendment and was subsequently put through its final stages. The Threshing Machine Owners Lien Bill was committed. A new clause was substituted for clause 3, providing that when an agricultural or other lien exists on any grain threshed by any contractor and is enforced by the lieuce, then such lieuee shall be responsible to the contractor for the full cost of threshing such grain. The Bill was reported, read a third time and passed. The Coal Miues Act Amendment Bill was read a second time on the voices. Tlic House rose at 12.10 a.m.