Parliament.

Manawatu Herald, 28 September 1893, Page 2

Parliament.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, Skptkmbrk 25. The Speaker took the chair at 2 SO p.m. The Premier moved ' That for the remainder of the session, Government Bills, after the stage of the second reading, be dealt with under standing order 832 as Bills of urgency.' Mr Seddon stated that the Government did not intend to proceed with the Arsenic and Cyanide of Potassium Importation and Carriage Bill, Sale of Poisons Bill, Noxious Weeds Bill, Auctioneers Act Amendment Bill, and Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Bill. The motion was agreed to. The following local Bills were put ■ through all their stages and passed :— Kaitangafca Cemetery Site Sale Bill, Otago University Reserve Vesting Bill, Lyttelion Orphanage Lands Vesting Bill, Auckland Domain Vesting Bill, Gisborne High Sohooi Act 1885 Further Amendment Bill, Mokoreta Cemetery Reserve Bill, Mahinapua Creek and Lake Reserves Bill, Westland Churohes, Sohools and Hospital Vesting Aofc Amendment Bill, Bfc Albans Public Library Transfer Billi Hawera Borough Council

Enabling Bill; Tli.ssecoud readirig of the Wan ganui Miver Trnsfc Amendment Bill was agreed to. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The Premier moved that the report of the conference with regard to the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Bill he agreed to, Sir Robert Stout, to show that he objected to the compromise which had been made, mdvßd an amendment that the considei'ation of the question be postponed for a month. After some debate the amendment was lost by 30 votes to 21, the report being adopted. The Premier moved the adoption of the report of the Privileges Committee, recommending that the control of the officers of the House should be in the hands of the Government. After a number of exemptions were proposed and agreed to the report, as amended, was adopted by 21 votes to 18. The House adjourned at 3.12" a.m. Tuesday, Skptemmku 20. The House met at 2.80 p.m. The debate on the question of introducing the Elective Governor Bill, in charge of Mr Taylor, was concluded. Permission to introduce the Bill was refused by 35 votes to 27. The Distress Amendment Bill was read a first time. On the question of the third reading of the Land for Settlements Act Amendment Bill a debate arose and the Bill was read a third time and passed. A debate arose on the question of going into Committee ot Supply to consider the Public Works Estimates, and then the whole of the Public Works Estimates were passed, and Hie Hou=e adjourned at 3.35 a.m.