Hawke's Bay Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. "MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1867. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 497, 5 August 1867, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY.

"MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1867. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

“-Y ttilius addict us jnnue in verba magisirU'

We are in receipt of No. 3 of the Parliamentary debates, extending over the week ending List July, and all hough our space will not admit of any extended analysis, we will present our readers with so much cf the main points ot interest as we are able.

On Tuesday, 23rd July, in the Legislative Council, Mr Harris asked ii it were the intention of the Government to introduce a bill to prevent the Introduction of convicts from Australia aml Tasmania, and stated that it hud been the practice of the Tasmanian

Government to grant well-behaved convicts remissions of sentence, condiaon al on their leaving that colony. Such convicts had Ihund their way to New Zealand, and the Government should take steps to prevent the continuance of it. The Lou. Major Ilichardsor. said that the Government had directed its attention to the matter, ami road copy of a communication that htu: Smen addressed to the Secretary ol State for the Colonics, ami rep!} thereto, to the effect “ that Her Males! yds Government would not disallow any Act that the New Zealand Government might pass ; they would reami such an Act with regret, as not being in accordance with Imperial pu;icy ; still the object was of such importance to the welfare of the colon v daft the Government would introiUi-i such a bill. In the House of llepro •mntatives, in repiy to a question. Mr. Stafford said that in the Government Printing Office, in consequence of the publishing of the debates from seven to nine extra hands were era pb-yed, at a cost of T 3 per week each, being less than generally paid in other printing offices. Tim Appeals from Justices Dili and the Coroners D.li aero considered in commit too; the

■DritiZi Australasian Hail Service Tib v;;s ivad u sec.■‘.ud lime. Autr !'li.-ctuhi>>n ; the Steam Havigiti-m Act I ( Vaicmhucnt Bill was rc-commltled, j '•:» the motion of air ll.ill, previous to ,its third reading. A motion of Id; Carletou for the copies of nil corres ■nondeuco relating to the campons..'i on! awards at Taranaki was agreed t >. and a library cainmiiteo appointed. 1 : (Ju Yv'oduesday, the tilth, in the Le-| gisktive Council, several Criminal | | Law Bills wore passed, and forwarded ' i to the lower House. | In the House of Xicpresentatiiies, I Hr Carletou inquired concerning the intentions of the Government with i regard to compensating settlers for ilosses sustained in tho nortli during illcko's war. Air Stafford renliod that a select con niittoc would be an- . ... [pointed to inquire into the whole mat;,::r of coinpenss.il in. A letter from (the chairman of a public meeting ai i Dunedin, c uiveyiag a resolution protesting against tho recent vote of the j House relative to the g dd-fic!ds delegation, was read by the Speaker, v, ho iwould nut lay it on the table, from itho •.•ilAnsivo and violent nature of its ■ language. Air C. \\ ils-m suga’cstcd ,that it should be returned, and if re reived a second time flung on tin: ■ floor of tho li-uise, that it m; At In I , , , ... iirampieu umar menu-, rs' lect. A ■ petition of the ilev. F. 0. Symor.ds, 1 relative to the Ihim-Utiou of scholar- | ships at one of the English universities, open to Hew Zealand Colonists, was I referred to a select committee. H; ; Vogel proposed his motion for the ‘appointment of a Committee of the I provincial Superintendents to enquire jinlo the financial condition of the

colony ar;d recommend aa equitable apportionment of liabilities, with a view to end the indefinite liability of the Southern provinces for Northern expenditure, and to give the Northern provinces lbs control of their own niTairs. Mr Fitzberbert moved an amendment modifying the motion as for the appointment of a committee to enquire (_ij whether the indefinite liability of Southern i’roviuccs for Northern expenditure can bs limited, and if so, whether any recommendation cun be made f>r an equitable apportionment of liabilities; f2) whether, and if so in what manner, die control of native affairs can be conferred on the Northern provinces vithin tbvir re-peotive limits, which iiuendiaent was after some discussion adopted, and on the motion of Mr McLean the committee was appointed by ballot. On die motion of Mr Jollie, it was ordered that a return of sales of confiscated land to the end of the last financial year, specifying the province, and locality, and the average amount received in each ease, be laid on the sable. The recommendation of the

Ucyorls of Debates Cummilieo, that the pauijdilets coni timing ilia Parlianmtavy dehdes, slu u'd pass free Ly post throughout the c-.-l«*ny was pt.eil, and tiic necessary stops wore : a!teu Ibv the issue of a now writ for the election of a member for the Ashioy (Canterl airy) district wore taken.