THURSDAY, 3rd OCTOBER.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 41, 7 October 1867, Page 247

THURSDAY, 3rd OCTOBER.

The Council met at 3 p.m. Present, — All themembers except Mr M'Lean. The minutes of the last-meeting were read and confirmed.: POINT OP ORDER, /

The SPEAKER said., before proceeding with .the business of the house hie should give his ruling on a pbirit of order raised yesterday. This'was;; whether or not the mover of amotion had, a-right of reply after amendments haid' been' moved, by other rheihbers. He' now ruled that. the ijnover of ah original motion had a right of reply after ’afl* amendments had been proposed,- andj’t'hat this reply must close the. discussion .of ithe question.

PROVINCIAL; LIABILITIES. .Mr BUCHANAN, moved—jThat there be. laid, oni the table of this Council e statement iiij fuR, detail .of the’, outstanding liabilities of the Provincial Government of Hawke’s Bay, made up the 30th. September, diitihgnisliing such as are absolute and defined , approximate and contingent charges only. Agreed to.

i; , : -SHEEP INSPECTOR. • Mr BUCHANAN moved—- - That a . copy of any correspondence: existing in regard to the filling offhe appointment of assistant sheep inspector be laid on the table. • ’ * Mr - ORMOND said the whole corresr pondenee was a letter from ihe froverhment to the' Inspector, .of-tne Inland Districts, ..offering;.him the appointment of Inspeotor: ofSouthern Districts, on condition that he should reside at Napier, and a’-' letter in reply accepting' the ment,; providing he 7 might be 1 allowed tb reside at Hiiyelock! ■’ ' :.

, Agreed tbi ' ! ' ; , V ‘ " ;■! 7.. "'.7' • ;:ROAD THROUGH EORTY MILE BUSH. ;; M aj or L AMB ERT moved—V That a-Beturnfd W laik dn;the' table shewing the total cost of the road through the 'iOiraile Bush, fi-dmlwhereiiifedhters fthe Bimh. to the ciphfincs of the-jProOTce; shewing itHe aniount paid to, the suryeyorfor layih'g.putimd'survey^ Major LAMBERT moved— <

“'Eor the.correspondence to-theappoiat-ment of Mr Limbrick jas .a special constable at Hampden, i 7 V V,*',’ landlord pujbHohq.uMhaid'-beem ’ a’ Ap^i^l^co&ytable," and;; the resident Justices' Tthew'" nothing'^p§?t!ihe reaßciry^J^ite. man, in his position was a most improper an .appointment. , He-Strongly.objected to isuch'i’an"nppoiht* mfent b'eih'g‘;niade vtitHout the: concurrence local, J ustices of the. Pekhe.. .!T£Te : individual in question was; landlord bfV very badly-conducted house, the license of which was in. imminent peril next -licensing, day. ! Mr ORMOND said the appointment should be cancelled. . V . : loan act amendment. - 1 Mr BUCHANAN moved, — ,\ ■ * ' j For leave to introduce a Bill further to amend the Loan Act* 1863. ■' ; Leave was granted ; the bill read a first time, ordered-to he printed, and its second reading ordered for Wednesday. I''.’.- ~COMMITTEE. : The,Committee,, of Supply, being postponed till Eriday, on the motion of Mr Ormond, the Council.went into Committee on the .Cemetery Bill. ..After the second clause had been read this Committee ‘was also postponed, on the motion of. Mr .W,ood. | The Council adjourned at 4r30 p.m.

FRIDAY, 4ik OCTOBER. The .Council met at 3 o’clock. Present, j—All the members except Mr .M'Leau.

: TELEGRAPH STATION, ; Mr CARLYON. moved—

That this Council present a petition to the Colonial Secretary in favor of. an electric telegraph station being located at Waipawa in preference to Waipukuran. ! Agreed to. , WANT OF CONFIDENCE.

Mr. BUCHANAN moved—1. That the open and unequivocal avowal of hostility to Provincial institutions uttered within the Chamber by the member for Porangahau, and tacitly assented to hy the members for Clive and Napier, is held to be adverse to the true interests of tliis Proyince, mid, in consequence, deprives those gentlemen of that free and full confidence as members of. the Executive which they have hitherto enjoyed. ; 2. That the Speaker forward a copy of this resolution to his Honor the Superintendent im r mediately he returns from Wellington. ''

: The resolutions wore negatived after a lofig discussion.

TOLL-GATE.

Mr WOOD moved—

That in the opinion of this Council the principle of levying money i'orjtlie maintenance of trunk roads by means of [should not be confined to the vicinity of Napier and Meanee, but that toll-gates should also he established at intervals' on the made roads of the interior, —say.at the junction of the Middle and Te Aute roads,’ Paki Paki, Te Aute, Waipawa, and Eperaima. Another long discussion ensued, and the motion was ultimately withdrawn.

The Committee of Supply was then postponed till Tnesduy, to which day the Council adjourned ot 10 p.m.