LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 150, 27 November 1863, Page 2

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Hawke's Bay Waste Land Regulation Act. —ln the House of Representatives on Thursday, the 12th inst., Mr. Ormond moved the second reading of this Bill, and brief!} explained its objects. Mr. Colenso opposed the measure, and criticised it as being unnecessary, unfair, and unjust, and as being devised for the purpose of taxing one part of the Province for the support of the other. Mr. Fox said the Government felt in some difficulty with regard to this Bill, the legislature having already enacted that no land should be sold on credit. He expressed no opinion on the merits of the Bill or the credit system in general. He wished to let each province deal as it pleased with its own lands as far as possible ; but if this Bill were passed it would be in direct opposition to the Act previously referred to. Mr. Ormond having replied, the question, “ that the Bill be now read a second time,” was put and negatived on a division by 24 to 12. Hampden Reserve, —On Friday, the 13th, in the House of Representatives, Mr. Ormond moved for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the issue of a Grown Grant to the Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, for a block of land, known as the Hampden Reserve, and explained the circumstances under which this measure had become necessary. Mr. Colenso most heartily seconded the motion, and gave some additional explanation. Mr. Fox said the Government would be prepared to give their opinion on this Bill at the second reading. Motion agreed to. Bill brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time. The Nominated Superintendents Bill was thrown out on a division of the House by a majority of twenty-one votes to nineteen. [Messrs. Colenso and Ormond both voted against it.