PARLIAMENTARY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 383, 14 July 1876, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

In the Assembly Vogel replied to de Lautour, re che CJ-oldfields reret.ue. that jtesas of revenue included in the ordinary revenue wi-re defined uoder the A hoi it ion of Province? AC. of Inst ye-:?' (O'iauae J5). Kxemi-fion-t were therein stnt d, and ordinary revenue would not include agricultural leases. The Government did not propose to create nny local bodies ot-hor than the counties, which were the bodies referred to, to which they proposed to hand over the G-oldfields revenue. They hoped the Counties wouid bfi so fixed aB to boundaries and size, as to givp the mining in-te-rest within theca fair representation andrighta. Counties and FinsnciH) Avrvngements Bills are to be brought down on Friday, and their second readings taken on Tuesdav. A caucus of Canterbury nietnbers was attended by all the member?, of chst Province, save Minister?. The meeting appointed delegates to confer with the nioinb.rs of Otago and otiier Provinces. This ia the movement referr.'d to the other day, hnving for its object financiiil .'reparation. It- is calculated tliat the session bos already cost £12.900.

Financial Separation gnins faTor. . Stout's Local Option Bill moved in a temperate spirit, and m<tt with an amendment thiU. it be read thnt dp.y six months, which 13 likely to lie carried. .Harper, member for Cheviot, is mentioned fts Attorney-General, but there i 9 po foundation therefor. 'lhe Public Petitions Committee recommend tha Government to bring in a hill to exemptifjr Smythies from the retrospective action of tlie Law Practitioners Act. Couuties Bill is to be circulated to-morrow. Local Elections Bill has been passed in the Lower House. Counties wii] not, a? generally supposed, be identical with Kduontsone.l IHstricts, but. be larger than proposed by Stafford in 1369. Tlie G-07eminent intimate their willingness to alter the boundaries if ihe desirability of doing, so is eatfehiished.