HAUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 404, 28 October 1884, Page 5

HAUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

'■ r{ ■-; ' '"'• '.TiiiTEsiJ'AYiti'ciir. 23. ' f> : ,i ReplyinsE to . T^estions-^The Gorerhot'a lecture on the 'defences of tjhe , < "•'■ *6\6ny would be published inp'arnphtat '^jm/atid* distributed 1 '^TP^&^W^ |f? £616%^ ' ( 2jJo; : nejb l e : ssity , hait . been ssi |n to exiafc'ldr. j Me^opening, of the t« lel&onchon, Sunf3ays. r „-.• . : I .; . 1 The JPaWo' KQtioe: b£ Births, Mar.and ; P.eafchs, Bill was , read) a trine md passed. - [ Sltfajbri: Steward n moved that the <*• ' ; fichbol Committed^Election Bill be, ye-J ' \ l ;"tße >!^il3f / , f fc6 r 'fe^^ ( S':'ihirdVii lEae.,1 Eae., Mr j „ "^ri^skimoyeditiiat ib be ireadjtliat 7, .dfty/^sii month's, i Mr Kollestoudesig- ;; -nateci th l e;bill .as _ a mess-— a f >'*■ bogus: m'easure-^-allo wed by members r'i ! ' • tb f jMistf this' Hbuse F in ; the 'firm con^ic(^hat lt^yrould be tKrqwn." out jby j ; ':£: tt[o .ppj^r Hb^a?- . Me If o\^ie ' St^|irt '^ ;?<s>ntende'd it had been shonjn con- \-\. qiusivelyi that, the education system did '.-, the views of a large portion . i oift the community. He referred to the - ■ efforts made by Otago td introduce the { '■< Bifel^ln sebobls principle. : Such befng 1 ; : t^e ci^ge th«re .was nb valid reason W t hy ? ,'jt^e" Bysterr^/: should be ..'.' 'ni^i^ecl'^ntact. The parties he r«- --! ; .|ireftfi|r|t€d4^ ;llo^ belieye in the, purbly ki iec^l&r syßcem, Mr Stou^h'g^i mem- : -bers|and tne country wou^^^ke the " ; 'ctesifig. remark 6f the last speaker. ; It- "■•"• wa'fea frank ltowal of what this bill . really aim'ed^l The House divided ' on. the question that the bill, do now. ; pass-rr-Ayes, 38 j noes, 27. Ofctead a . tMrd time, and passed. ' ' 8 Registration Act Amendabandoned. '■/■'■■ 'Sir G. Grey ng|gsj|Athe secoud reading of the FroHßlßm, Newspapers ' Eegisiration AcPSHHPnVnt JBill,; $o ; which Mr Joyce adapted. The bill ■ proposed to relax a yery wholesome 1 restraint. ! A vast amount of evil riould - bflwfoughfc by malicious personal pubIjpatibnß, and by making prosecution more' "difficult, as this bill proposed, fcuch defaulters were aliapst sure to escape. ; . t^ith all the restricfcions at present in force malicious ' publications ■■■ were not [by. any means infrequent. iiotion tor third reading carried, and : ite bill, passed, v Sir Oeprge G-rey nioTed the second ' • jr^itding of tße ffroljd Duty Abolition Bill. / ',ji.t. StjQfuti.Jiaidi.itihat if the bill; 'was . ; ; . withdraw** ; ; the •* G-orernment would , : .; -.{ consider the «übject r during the repess, '" ■•' *nd 'brings down'neit session some !pro■pOial'fbr.tHereductioQ of, this duty. — p v _' ;^iir^ithdra'wk / ;;l-: ' : ]'•• /.[■; ; ReplyiingV^ a it was stated ttiat 't^j»,",Go?i^ineA^ Was /agreed 1 that ' . ! tfefqr,nj ot^thei;liegislatiye Council | was '•; : required, ian^i: ithe;y ! woujcl considejp the C question, the' reoeas. •-„•-,•! ! . ,i g?hp dbbpte'oh the North ,.lM and : ■'•■•'Uriikls : Bailway ibute was resumed &p& : ; the' 'central' route ' beiDg ;"-;,..;^csipi,ibys^tbm : ' •• ' '" ■ ■ '-""*'' TKe'lfestituto Persons Act, ' 1877, 4^«aendn>eaat Bill was read a third time and passed. :,-■• •.:"!• ■" ( • :••:> , : Mr .■ Eichardsoa. thdri delivered the Public WdrKs StatSnventj !^per wnich ; : ' Mr Stout made the folio wing "state- ,. xnent ,: The , Go vernment ssrish ( ifcfoe . House to distinctly understand that ail •;•' ihe- proposals arid intentions stated bj ; jifl^ colleagues irtregard to the railways . .. m feofch .Islands stand together, and stand ffiwreover connected with the i Bills whiefc&aYe passed this, House, to which we hav<e already said, we attach pa,tam6unt imporitiai|ic<B. The Government are not inclined to /fc^Jte too local ■'.■ a view o£ railWays, and to .s.ayr^' W^e cannpfc. make a 'railway to this ; town i ''-. became we cannot make ib to another," ""' : . rPatience must be exercised by lo«alities >'i bo : that 1 railways may be ea?fM on with some regard to speedily obtaining & return from the . works in progress, ■ But whilst iiofc taking a contractedly narrow view of local claims, the Qovern : - meat h&ve im> notion of seeing one v Island raided to a prosperous condition ' } ;,' ' and the other plunged into gloomy i ■ depression. I will indeed gp farther, : : aid say 7 that since there appeaw ; an 'r to bring about such a result '"'" tikt oorern«ieafc wiU be no party tQ it,

nor will they suffer ifc. They would sooner that this session should be entirely barren, and that-! .another session should immediately with or "without,,, aa appeal to the constituencies. , Mr Thomson criticised the Statement at some length. ' Mr Bryce said the Statement made by Mr 1 Richardson had made a good impression on him (Mr Bryce). It was a moat important Statement, but the Premier's remarks, were of equal importance, and he thought the House should f have r time to corisiier the Statement well before the debate was continued. 1 The Bankruptcy Bill and Police 'Offences Bill (in. committee) occupied the remainder. ;of the sitting.