HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 2, 28 November 1877, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

■Wellington, November 2-7. 'JHi,o House met at 2.20. In reply to questions Ministers said {\.\ Parliament having decided in favor of secular, education it was not proposed to provide'for the suppftrt of exiatiu,? aided school s,,after the expiry of present financial year, up fco that they would be main* tamed as heretofore. (2.) Did. not intend ta provide for t!ie continuance of armed, volunteer prize firing, would provide snjali sum for local prizes. (35.) Sheep and Cattle Bill, Charitable Insti* tutions Bill en Sheehan's motion were discharged. The Civil List Amendment Bill intro,-. <$ured by late Ministry to raise salaries of Judges was also discharged, Sheehaa Raying Judges were wretchedly paid, bnfc Government did uot like the method uf increase proposed in the Bill. It was announced in the Upper House that Johs Nathaniel Wilson had been appointed a member of legislative Council. Tho House went into Committee of Snp'pfe aa & a 1. 0n R discujssjon took plaeo on the item of honorari,u,ift to. Sir Julius Yogel for amices in, JSngland^ £3jOOOi. The vote was supportedt by Hunter, Macau,dro.w, Reynolds, S^aftfarlane, Evana Brown,, Mandcr, Atkinson, Stout, Beid, and ltowe, and opposed by Gisborne, Roes, Hodgkinson, Murray, £»elatour, Montgomery, Grey* Wood, and Sheehan. Dv a division tho item was carried by 33