Parliamentary Notes.

Hastings Standard, Issue 148, 17 October 1896, Page 3

Parliamentary Notes.

IX HOUSE ANI> COUNCIL

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Wkl,hm;"f<>n, This day

11l the Council yes>ri lay iif: r:» ► n the Electric;; 1 M.;: r Power I.ill. the Naval and Military Claims SettS.! . :it Uill, and the Electoral Act Amendment Bill passed their final stages. _ At the evening sitting the following Bills went through their tinal stag* s : PubTt* Reserves Vesting and Sale Act Amspohu-nt llilt. Public Works Appropriation Hill. Alcoholic Lienors Inspection Hill, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration A«'t Amendment Bill, Public R. • - and Crown Lands Disposal and Enabling Hill, and Legislation and People-, Claims Dill. The Hons Messrs Kelly, lionar, Richardson, and I>r Grace were appointed manag* rs to confer with the managers of the House on the Hanking Bill, the managers previously appointed being unable to ;tgrec. In the House yesterday afternoon it was resolved to place on record the appreciation of the services of Mr Seddon ami Sir Robert Stout rend- rut gratuitously to the colony in connection with the New Zealand Midland Railway Arbitration. The tinal •• slaughter of the innocents" took place, when the following measures were discharged from the Order Paper : -County Franchise Extension, Local I iovernuient. Government Fire Insurance, Constitution Act Amendment. Consolidated Stock Act Amendment Hill, Customs Duties Reciprocity Acts Amendment, Rabbit Proof Wire Netting Fences, Second Ballot, Master and Apprentices. Fair Rent, Juries Amendment, Noxious Weeds, -Juvenile Depravity Suppression, Medical Practitioners llegi>tr.ition Act Amendment, Local Hoards Constitution Reform, and Unci unied Money-. The Premier stated that he would accept the amendments made by the Council in the Banking Hill, and moved that the managers of the House to meet the managers from "another place" be the Premier, the Hon J. McKeozie, and Messrs Bell, Tanner, and Gmnne«. On the House resinning it was reported that the conference had been nnable to come to any agreement. The House managers had agreed to the Council's amendment with regard to the appointment of director-, but no decision w;>- arri\« d at with regard to the disqualification clause. The salary of the directors had been restored t>> I f')o. Another conference was arranged for, and its . th»r:- to come to an amicable arrangement were as futile as its predecessor.