HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1896, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

(Per Press Association. l ] Wellington, Sept 24. I The Uriwera. District Native Re- | servos Bill was read a second time j without division. ! The Hou>e wont into Corrniittoe on ■ the Eight Hours' Uill, Tobacco Excise | Bill, Tobacco Act Anienrltnent Bill, : and Government Valuation of Land ; Bill. | On the first Bill Mr Riccarton Rus- ! sell moved to add Government print- I ing ollicc. and railway work-shops. The motion to add Govenmiont i j Printing (.Mlice <i) Uio. list of factories put under the iOight Hours' Bill was carried against the Government by 31---votes to 27. The motion to add the Railway Workshops and Repairing Sheds was carried by 39 to 29. ' , In committee on the Eight Hours Bill ! further amendments wore carried ex- : empting the local authorities, agricultural ; and pastoral laborer?, and those working in dairies from the provisioi.s of the Dill. ■ A motion to include co-operative work- i men in the Bill was lost by 27 to 20. ; A largo number of other important \ amendments were proposed but rejected, . v.'hile several minor alterations wore - made in the Bill, which subsequently passed its final stnges. ! The Urcwera Native Reserve Bill ptis- | sed through committee without material i amendment. On the motion of the Prr-inkr, all committees were excused from sitting to-ctay, j The House rose at 3.30 a.m.