PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2326, 17 September 1881, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

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WELLINGTON. September 16. The following- return was tabled to-day on the motion of Mr Barron :—Births registered in colony in 1877, 16,856; 1878, 17,770 ; 1879, 18,07-1; 1880, 19,341 ; total, 72,037. Deaths of children under six mouths of age—lß77. 1103 ; 1878, 1085 ; 1879, 1407 ; 1880, 1299 ; total, 4895. Number of cases of succesfal vaccination registered (children under fourteen years of age)—lß77, 10,746 ; 1878, 11,495 ; 1879, 12,384 ; 1880, 13.628 ; total, 48,253. The business has bean rushed through to-day tut an extraordinarily rapid rate. The Property Assessment Bill passed tnrough all its stages without debate. Similarly the Stamp Duties and Succession Duties passed unopposed and undiscussed. Everything is going through at express speed, and all parties and all members seem determined not to sit many days longer. The Public Petitions Committee reported this evening on the petition of A.|J. Renner, one of the telegraph operators dismissed and ** posted ” for “ striking,” The report is as follows :—“ Tne committee are of opinion that the petitioner has no claim for compensation, as the loss he has sustained has been brought about by his own act; but ns ho has expressed regret for his conduct, the committee think he should be re-appointed on the conditions offered by the Department when any vacancy occurs.”

On the Premier moving the re-committal of the Leaseholders Qualification Bill to-night something very like stonewalling was begun by the Opposition, and the proposed re-committal was violently opposed. At midnight a motion for adjournment was negatived, and afterwards the House had several times to be counted, a quorum being with difficulty maintained. The debate dragged drearily, and at a quarter to one a division took place, resulting in a victory for the Government by ten votes. The House then went into committee on the Bill, but at 1.20 agreed to report progress, and then adjourned. In the Legislative Council, also, there was a near approach to stonewalling on the Railways Construction Bill in committee, especially on clause 15. Ultimately au adjournment was carried by the casting vote of the chairman. Both Houses meet to-morrow morning.