GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1006, 15 September 1877, Page 3

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

[By Telegraph.]

[PEE PRESS AGENCY.] LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Friday, September 14. canterbury railways. On the motion of the Hon. J. Hah, a Select Committee was appointed to inquire and report upon provision made or required for the conveyance of grain on the Canterbury railways. DR. CAMPBELL. A motion by the Hon. W. Robinson, that a copy of a petition or communication to the Government by members of the Christchurch Hospital, re Dr. Campbell, be laid on table, was carried by a good majority on division. The Destitute Persons JBill was read a third time. Friday, September 14. The House met at 2.30 p.m. the christchurch resident magistrate. Mr Fox asked the Minister of Justice if his attention had been called to recent decisions of the Resident Magistrate of Christchurch. In doing so lie alluded to the case of a man charged with an attempted rape on his own daughter, and who had been dealt with summarily by being given six months' imprisonment. In remarkable coutrast with this was another case tending to show the Magistrate's utter unfitness for his oflice. On the same dayan abandoned womanfor drunkenness and indecency was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. A third case was that of the boys who passed the buttons for sovereigns. The maimer in which the Magistrate spoke to the draper on that occasion demanded notice. Mr Bo wen said he had only seen the newspaper report of the rape case, and it was not fair to form an opinion on that. The Magistrate was a painstaking conscientious man. He would make further inquiry into the cases mentioned. SETTLERS ON RESERVES. Mr Wakefield asked whether it was intended to to afford immigrants settled on reserves in Canterbury an opportunity of acqiuring the freehold of the land which they occupy. Mr Reid said where reserves were not specifically appropriated to other purposes it was intended to survey them into convenient allotments, and to enable those settled on reserves to acquire what they occupied at a fair price. Replying to Mr Wakefield, Mr Reid said it was intended to lay off townships on the reserves along railway lines, but in this, as in the former case, the difficulty was to get the survey work done. ARTISANS' PETITIONS. Replying to Mr Reynolds, Mr Ormond said Grovernment intended to give effect to the report of the Public Petitions Committee on the petitions of the artisans of Uunedin, by getting all work which could ppsaibly be done, in the colony. THE EDUCATION BILL. I The House went in committee on the Education Rill. Clause 50 passed with some further amendments regarding scholarships, 51 and E>2 wore postponed, clause 63 passed on division by 28 to 1(3.