PARLIAMENTARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 526, 24 September 1902, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night. The Council mot at 2.30. The Electoral Bill. Opium Prohibition Bill, and Motor Cars Regulation Bill passed the final stages. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tho House met at 2.30.

Sir .Joseph Ward laid tho report of the Transport Commission on the table, and said he would fix a date for its discussion, but ho did not think members would dosire to discuss it at length. The House then went into Committeo of Supply for the consideration of the Public Works Estimates, and a genera! discussion took place on the first item, in course of which Sir Joseph Ward said that when the authority for the last loan had been given, be had taken such precautions that now they would bo able to snap tbeir fingers at the London money market, and raise the money in the colony. A portion of the loan had been raised here at 3-i per cent. The discussion was interrupted by the 5.30 adjournment. The House resumed at 7.30. The first class of the Public Works Estimates was agreed to unaltered. At the vote for railway construction Mr Bollard moved that the vote for the North Island Trunk Railway, £200,000, should be reduced by £5, as a protest against- the gross mismanagement and great delay that had taken place in connection with this railway,

After a lengthy di6"ussion, the motion was negatived by 36 to 24. A motion by Sir W. Russell that the vote for the Midland Railway, £IOO,OOO, he reduced by £50.000, was lost by 85 to 13. Mr .Jas. Allen moved the reduction of £5,000 in the vote of £IO,OOO for the Hokitika to Ross extension. The motion was lost by 35 to 10, and the total vote for railway construction was passed unaltered.