PARLIAMENTARY

Kumara Times, Issue 2801, 12 September 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

O’O ALL AGHAN’S AMENDMENT LOST. RUSSELL’S MOTION CARRIED. THE DIVISION LIST. TOTAL REDUCTIONS, £370,000. MINERS’ RIGHTS CONFERENCE. SEDDON DISQUALIFICATION INQUIRY. (from our own correspondent.] Wellington, September 12. In the House yesterday, the proceedings were extraordinary. At 9 o’clock in the evening Mr O’Callaghan’s amendment was lost on the voices, and Captain Russell’s motion was then put and carried by 44 to 29. The following is the division list:— Ayes—44. Allwright Lake Atkinson Lance Barron Levestam Beetham Locke Bevan Macandrew Bruce M‘Millan Bryce Menteath Buchanan Mitchelson Buckland, W. F. O’Callaghan Conolly Pearson Dobson Peacock Garrick Richardson, G. F. Guinness Ross Hamlin Russell Harper Samuel Hislop Steward Hobbs Sutter Holmes Thompson Hursthouse Trimble Ivess Walker Johnston White Kerr Whyte, J. B. Noes—29. Ballance Newman Bradshaw O’Conor Brown Pratt Buckland, J. C. Pyke Oadman Reid Cowan Richardson, J. Dargaville Seddon. Duncan Smith Fitzherbert Stewart Gore Stout Hatch Te Ao Macarthur Thompson, T. Mackenzie, Scobie Turnbull M { Kenzie, J. Wipere Moss Pairs. FOR. AGAINST. Hurst, W. J. Larnach Fulton Joyce Rolleston Tole Wilson Reese It will be seen that Messrs Seddon, and O’Conor voted with the Government, and Messrs Guinness, Menteath, and Bevan for Russell’s motion. The North Island trunk line, and the East and West Coast and Otago Central Railway votes were thrown out by large majorities. The Hokitika and Greymouth vote of £15,000 was, on the casting vote of the Chairman, reduced by £BOOO. Hursthouse and some Canterbury members voted for the reduction. Guinness and Bevan are very wroth at being sold by their friends. The general opinion is that they should not have entered into the compact with Nelson members. The total reduction made amounts to £370,000. There is an opinion afloat that serious slaughter will ensue with Road, Bridges, and Goldfields votes. The House adjourned at 5.45 a.ra. The conference on the reduction of miners’ rights and business licenses met ibis morning, present Messrs Menzies, Pyke, Millar, Reyno ds, Tole, and Seddou. After two bouts’ discussion the conference was adjourned so that the members for the Council may get further powers from the Council. It is rumoured that the committee appointed to inquire into Mr Seddon’s alleged disqualification have concluded their investigation, and also to a report which is to be presented to the House on Monday. The probable nature of the report has not, of course, been allowed to transpire.