PARLIAMENTARY.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1707, 9 August 1879, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

SECOND EDITION

HOUSE OF EEPEESENTATIYEB. Saturday, August 9. The House met at 11 a.m. Mr Sbymoub brought up the report of the Standing Orders Committee, recommending Committees of Supples and Ways and Morns to sit for granting snpp ,; es immediately after the aadrcss ; n reply is brought up and agreed to. The report was adopted, aud the recommendation ordered to be embodied in the standing order. The third reading of the Appropriation Bill was ear.led with the formal amendments made, and remitted to the Upper House. The Ministbb of Pubutc Woeks Fid on the table a paper showing the railway* opened and under contract during the past year, with the lines surveyed ; aTso the maps and reports under the Be'Vways Construction Act, 1878 ; also a paper re commencement of the Thames-Waikato railway. These were ordered to he on the t"ible. Mr Eussell asked whether the Commissioner of Ea ;l ways’ ciror'ar No. 25 apn ,: es to all grades employed on New Zealand ra :i .ways, and why the employes of the department p*e placed at a serious disrivantage comnared with other branches of the puh ,: c service.

Mr Mawsdbew sp ; d the regulation referred to the payment of overtime, but the matter was under revision, »nd an p Iteration might be made to meet the c ; 'crn3if;nces brought vnder notice. Mr Kelly asked whether the Gove: jm'ent will give effect to the recommendation of the Petitions Committee : n the case of Sptnuel Pbi'Hos who wei found to have been wrongfully dismissed from the publ : c sei.lce. The Minister op Lands said he would make himself acquainted with the circumstances of the case if necessary, pad wocld have a further inqu : >y into the matter. Mr Riohabdson asked whether the Government W'H lake into consideration the advisabiHty of mak'ng provision for a residence for the Governor.

The_ PaniriEE said he bad been informed at too'late a period of the session to discuss this matter. The Pbhmibb obtained leaye to ; ntroduce a Bill en'itled The Maori Piisoners Act, empowering the Gf-ove; Jor to extend the time for trial of Maori prisoners, and The Peso Preservation Act, affecting the condition of affai-s on the West Co?~t. The House eijou ned at 12 30.