PARLIAMENTARY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 388, 18 August 1876, Page 5 (Supplement)

PARLIAMENTARY.

The debate on the Separation resolutions was brought to a close last night. ; ' Grey insisted on taking the resolutions seriatim, and the Speaker, on being appealed to,- ruled that tlie resolutions could be put separately. The Premier then announced, that the Government would -support: the first, second, and last re-solutions. The first and second were carried on the voices. On the third. be-intc put there voted—Noes, 47:—Andrews, Atkinson, Baigent, Ballance, Barff, Bowen, Brandon, Bryce, Bunny, Button, Carrington, Cox, Curtis, Douglas, Fitzroy, Gibbs, Harper, Henry, Hunter, Hursthouse, Johnstone, Kennedy, Kenny, Manders, M'Lean (Sir D.), M'Lean (G.), Montgomery, Moorhouse, Mur-ray-Aynsley, Ormond, Pearce, Pyke (teller), G. E. Read, Richardson, Rolleston, Rowe, Russell, Seymour, Sharp (teller), Stafford, Stevens, Tewit (?), Teschemaker, Tribe, Vogel, "Williams, and Woolcnck. . Ayes (32) Brown J C, (teller), Burns, de Lautour, Dignan, Fisher, -Greyjs Hamlin, Hislop, Hodgkinson, Joyce, Lumsden, Lusk, Macandrew, Macfarlane, Murray, Nahi, O'Rorke, Rees, Reid D., Seaton, Sheehan, Shrimaki, Stout (teller). Swanson, Takamoana, Thompson, Tole, Tonks, Wakefield, Wason," Whitaker and K. G. Wood. The fourth resolution was negatived by 46 to 32, Sir R. Douglas voting for it, and D. Reid. being absent. The fifth sixth and seventh were negatived on the voices. The House divided on the eighth resolution which was rejected by 44 to 30. The following are the resolutions:— 1, That in the opinion of the House, the state of the Colony requires that its financial and constitutional arrangement should be reconsidered. 2, That the unity of the Colony should be maintained. 3, That there should be two Local Governments, one for each Island. 4, That the Colonial Government be responsible for .Colonial debt, fo which the annual charge for interest

ard sinking fund is £815,000; the .North Island shall be charged with £190,000 per annum, and the South. Island with £625,000 per annum. 5, That, with the esceotiou of those matters of great Colonial import tance, which- must be reserved for . the Colonial Government, each Local Government shall have entire control and management of itß o-.vn affairs and the disposal of its. nues, 6, That the seat of Local Government of the North Island shall be at-'"' Auckland. 7, That the seat of Local Government of the South Island shall be at Christchurch. 8, That the seat of Colonial Government shall remain as at present ju. Wellington.