Parliamentary.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 October 1901, Page 4

Parliamentary.

(PER 'PRESS ASSOCIATION.) leslslative Council When the Council met at 2 30 o’clock the Smoking by Youths Prohibition Bill, Law Amendment Bill, and Counties Act Amendment Bill, pa sed their final stages. The Statutes Compilation Bill was killed in Committee by 15 to 13. The Rabbit Nuisance'Act Amendment Bill Was read the second time. House of Representatives. In the House the greater of the afternoon was occupied in answering queitionr. 1 In the House the Money Lenders Bill passed its final st ig- s. . EXPENSES OF THE ROYAL VISIT. Mr Seddon moved the second realing of the Royal Visit Expenses Bill to provide for tno repayment of £2250 to tha Governor in connection with tha Royal visit. He said the Governor had acted as host for the Colony and this repayment would not by any means covor all the persona! 1 expenses ho had been put to. Considerable debate ensued, during which Messrs Hornsby, Fisher. Piranj, Barclay, and others opposed tho Bill, Sir Joseph Ward deprecated this section of the House cavilling at this comparatively small expenditure, and laid’ tha whole of the £70,000 expended by the Government in coanecdort with the Royal visit had been made up in increased revenue through tho railways an! Customs.