GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Kumara Times, Issue 636, 11 October 1878, Page 2

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

[press agency,] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wellington, October. 10. The House resumed last evening,, at half-past seven o’clock. Mr Tole denied a statement made in the New Zealand Times that he had used his influence, as a member of the House, to procure the dismissal of -Mr Williams, Registration-Officer at. the Bay of Islands. • Mr Ormond charged Mr Tole with having taken liberty, during the absence of the Registration Officer, to raise technical objections to names being struck out of the Roll. On the second reading of the Wanganui High School Bill, Mr Kolleaton protested against splitting up Education endowments for the maintenance of inferior schools. . ~ , The Harbor Board Endowments resolution, affirming the necessity of a general colonial system in the construction of harbor works, was withdrawn. The Plans of . Towns on Private Lands Regulation Bill was read a second time. The bill proposes to fix the minimum width of streets in future in townships laid put on private land at a chain and n-half, and makes provision for reserves for public purposes. The bill was read a second time on the Voices.

Mr Sheehan promised to p'ace a sum on the into Maori of Mr A. Mackay’s work on “Native Allans in the Middle Island.”,

The Married. Women’s Property' Protection Bill was withdrawn oh the second reading. ; ' . i The Riverton High School Bill, introduced by Mr de Labour, was condemned on a division. The Educational Reserves Bill went through its second reading. The Publicans Licenses Bill has been, postponed. On a division, the endowment clauses in the WairOa Harbor Bill were struck out, leaving thei Harbor Board no land to borrow on. ‘ ';

Mr Russell charged the Premier with having promised to support the bill, absenting himself from the House.

Mr Rees' attributed the absence of the (Premier to illness. The second reading of the Goldmining Districts Act, 1873, Amendment Bill was postponed ; also the Education Act Amendment Bill, which proposes to give to Roman Catholics State jaid, the Government, promising to take the disccssion u'p thjs-day week. The second reading of the Representation Act Amendment Bill was postponed to next Wednesday. The Joint Stock Companies Amendment Bill was read a second .time. The following bills were postponed : Rabbit Nuisance, Local Judicature Executive Councillors, Licensing Fisheries Preservation, Special Powers and Contracts, Juries Amendment, District Railways Amendment; Dog Registration, Creditor’s Act Amendment, Cemeteries Act Amendment, ; Bribery, Education Reserves, Leasing. ■ LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Wellington, October 10. ' The Council rejected Deceased Wife’s Sisters Marriage Bill, on a division by 18 to 9, and passed the Harbor-Bill. G. R. Johnston presented a petition from Hawkes’ Bay, against the Maori vote in the Electoral Bill* on the ground that it would disfranchise the Europeans of that district. « The Invercargill Water Works, Oamarii Mechanics’ Institute, and Taranaki Council Loan Bills, were appointed to be read a second time, on Friday. Extended leave of absence to the Speaker was granted for a fortnight. The Tiraaru Telegraph and Post Office Bill, was read a second time, and passe I committee without amendment. A new clause in the Municipal Corporations Bill, fixing minimum width

of private streets at forty feet was' agreed to, when the Council adjourned* ■' HOUSE OP representatives;* Wellington, October 10. Mr Ormond’s Military Grants Bill ' was under discussion in Committee in j the House to-day. ■ The Land Ame.ndment.3ill, was read a first time, Disqualification Bill No. 2 passed committee. TheNatiVe Land Sale’s Bill postponed pending negotiations to render it gener* ally acceptable to the House. Friendly Societies Bill amended in committee by the insertion of a new clause providing societies shall not be disentitled to registration in the colony on the ground, of ■subordination to saino ; order outside the. colohy, provided any !, general rules adopted in the colony .be sent to Registrars. . . Dangerous goods .Act amended, in committee by substituting, a new clause ; 1 for clause 8, empowering persons auth- ’. orised under the Act and police r to enter upon premises, and • .procure samples of inflammable oil, and inspect receptacles and stowage. ' The Public Reserves' Sale Bill which provides for certain railway reserves in Canterbury and Westport areJlu, coip.;- ;■ mittee. , . Mr Stout.said part of the purchase money would be reserved-for lands. - ’ •'I