PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 229, 4 July 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

I | L.i the House .this afternoon Pvke £av,e .notice to ask wnethtr it is proposed to renew th«e sysknn of nominated iminij pillion. j mored the second reading of jiij/j Mines Act (J877) Amendment Bill. i lie explained .that the bill reduced the tijdjur'i nghL lee to ten shill ngs, and tlio j easiness license to two pounds. In every |/oiher colony the lea had been reduced for j miner s rjjjjts,, as \ ogel saiJ the other j idi v. Ci 11.nness s;rongiy supported it. It ! i • »i ■ w LS ] 'ea.l a second time: Larnaeh s.vid he ! ! "would not oppose tho bill. He had ! ! anticipated its provisions to a certain ~ extent 111 a bill he intended brin ,r in Qr in Mining Companies' Amendment UiJl was adjourned to I,sth July, at Manteath's reqii3,t. Hatch presented a petition from 203 inhabitants ol Invercargill praying for discontinuance of employment oi barmaids in public houses. , Dr Menzies presented a similar document to the Upper House, signed by 211 men and 195 women. The Pefence Minister thought it unwise :! J to periodically move police inspectors in 'j i goklQalds and country districts. '1 he Premier moved the second readin (r ■] 1 ■ . °' i, of the Counties Act Amendment Bill. He J thought it would be better if they had; [»1 only two local bodies, lioad Boards and ! Borough Councils. ' 1 Bradshaw moved the second reading of the Employment of Females and Others 1 * Act, 1881, Amendment Bill, and J. C. ■ i Buctkland intimated that when the Bill j 1 was in Committee ,be would move in the direction of doing away with barmaids 1 ad together.. CT-