PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1889, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

On Thursday the House came to a diyiniodpn the Otago Cetfiral Riilwasfeill. Mr Smith moved as an amendment,, That the Bill be postponed in order that the Government may have an opportunity of including in it other unfifusiW fines. JH* alluded to the WopdviHe-^MuW°a« one the jmmadjate construction of .which Scobje MoE^nzie,^Bh,^fltfeßwraM^ie Pxemiei; spoke, in ftivdtrf M tile*. Bfll;*lnd Messrs BaJ^ce,: BucJ«A&, '^oiijnd Menteathiirauppprt o\* e "™fTO^\ - of Mr Menieath'B speech, ana qtßftKitSng. Mr Ment^ftU^ $MU3kly .denognogg -^the urinelnle olbsurowintti s.ud said *™ .Mw.no disaster, which would t»rmg t<^h J 6m*B'ttJ*'ithe people $he evils which aftipMeV|t^ *?***j* nt system of government by knot* *>£,•#**" tors. (A voice: mataKbuVitfe* ?? '*» railway ?) Mr Menteath : lam cbm\«B <» that. (Mr W. P. Reeves-. ft^h'^ cdml^g to you.) Mr Menteath said it was tm« that he had advocated a local work— a work which/would cost, a, few thousands, and which would give a good return. • 'But what did the Government say, to bim?^ They said, in effeat, that if he would support this Bill and deplete the taxpavei-s! .-pockets of large sums of money, then he could , have h» work a* a bribe. He e^pftjsftf/an opinion tha"t <h# people he did not wish to g«t the'worfc on; those terms ; and he pointed out that the Wellington Manawatu Company w«re prepj^ed^ construct the line. Mr Fipih : WguM you be in favour of that ? .Mr" Meriteath'sma I %fr would. He went on to aYgtw thafthfa Mas the time when the Gblony shflulA insist ton a new qrder of thiqg6 t , beigg in&j&bited..,) /A division was takein a| a quitrter paas 1 on the question thattheßill^be \tcfw?raid a second time.* FoUowfing is the Tiitißfon list:— . i;:*u Ayes, 17— Messrs Allen, Atkinson, Barron, Bruce, Fe*gus»Bish,Fitchett, Graham, Hislop, Humphreys. Izafd, M.J. S. Mackenzie, McGregor, Mitchelson, Pykl/, ! G. F. Richardson, W.;D. Stewart. < ; ; ' r<{ uJ Noes, 33— Messrs Ballance, Bhjk% Cad- (- man,' Feldwick, ( Fishev, , Fra'ser, Goldie, Grimmond', Guinness, jiarkn^ss, Hatcjbison, Kerr, Lance, La* bach, La%l^;iliOMghrey, Mbnk, Moss, Parate; J»erce*al^ ft, H. J. Beeves/W. P. Beev«g, Ehod.es, JjWsaeH, Saunders, Seddon, Smith, Staari-Ment«4th, Taiwhanga, Taylor, T. Thdnip^on, • 'Sthxboll. Ward. . " I Pairs.^For :, Meisrfe ftdtda, Hf*l^, T: rMaokenaift' TauJwtwißofg, •y.alfß^e.^B. Thompson, Ormond, , Joneg, t .JQarroll^ . J. MeKenzie, Cowan, Mar'chant, Auuvrsun, Seymour and Sif**Jbhn Hall. . Against ; Messrs fltmael, Whyie» iBl-t-BjdUadson, Kelly, O'Coaor, Withy, Buitart, r. .Walker, Wilson,- Joyce, Duncaßi. Rjchard--Bpn, Sir George Gretf, Dr NeVrman*ana i Dr • Hodgldnkon: . . • " 7 lv -ni-aqf-v:. The second reading waa therefor* lost, end Mr Smith's amendment, waß-^rried by.32to|Jp. „,., { . ; ;. Uum " The Speaker,' in answer to, TO* Scobie Mackenzie, said the effect of' tlw division was simply to order that the seoead reading should not take place that day;