PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 516, 10 October 1867, Page 2

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

The Provincial Council met yesterday at the usual hour. A resolution by Mr Tanner, recommending a semiweekly mail to Waipuwn, was affirmed. Three resolutions by Mr Buchanan, to place a toll on the Ngarnm-o Bridge, were negatived after a long discussion on a division, the numbers being—ayes, 5 ; noc-s, 10. On this result. Mr Buchanan withdrew his other motion, for a return of the cost of the Waitangi ,mi Ngaruroro Bridges. In reply to a question by Mr Buchanan about the works being earned on at she .Spit, Mr Ormond said that they were the construction of a new wharf, .the old one having long been in a ven idilapidated condition, and that the ex Ipeimiiure was under a vote of the ICouneil, passed last session. Mr Ormond, in accordance with a motion by Major Lambert, supplied the Council with some particulars respecting the school property at Te Ante. On the motion of Major Lambert a select committee, with power to call for persons and papers, was appointed to enquire into the expenditure, Ac., on the road through the Seventy-mile Bush. The committee on the Sheep and Scab Amendment Bill was postponed till Friday, The report of the select committee on the Highways Act was 1 m ought up and read, the Cemeteries jßili was read a third time and passed, Sand the House then (5 - 45) adjourned |till 7 p.m.

' The Cmmci! met again at 7, ami, in jt.im absencv of the Speaker, Major |Lambert v.ms voted to the chair, on the j motion of Mr Carlyon, seconded by Mr i Unchanan. The Speaker entered the. Chamber at 7’LO, but immediately retired ; and strangers and reporters were then ordered to leave the gallery. At B o'clock, the House having resolved itself into committee on the

Toli-gate Bill, and strangers again admitted, Mr Buchanan asked for the committee to be deferred, but this was refused. He then continued to move amendments on the lirst clause for some hours.. At IT3O p.m. Major Lambert proposed that the Council should adopt a system of relays, for the purpose of relieving those members who might require rest or refreshment. At 12'30 Major Lambert observed some members in the strangers’ gallery, and drew the attention of the Chairman lo the iact. Those gentlemen remaining, Major Lambert called the Chairman’s attention to the fact that there were strangers in the gallery, and the house was a second time cleared.

At this time (1 a.m.) our reporter left ; but the first clause of the Bill had not gone through committee, and there did not seem any probability of either side yielding.