PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 19, 20 June 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE , OF. BEEEESBNTATiyiSS. 1 ' : /•■'■'^VmTßD-.pß'Kks- 'ASSOCIATION 1 . :> ) '."■■:• ". . Wellington, /Thursday.! . ■ •: 'MEißryce moved: for a retuxii showing the number of blocks of native land the title to which has been determined by. the Native Lamls Court from the date of creation . to 31st March, 1885, with the area and number of owners of each block respectively. Agreed to. MINISTERS' TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES. Mr Hurst moved for a return of the cost and travelling allowances drawn by each Minister and attendants since 1879 m each year.— Agreed to. FOREST TREE PLANTING RETURN. Mr Eolleston. moved, That copies of : of all correspond.encg an£ all memoranda by the Commissioner, of Oroym Lands m the Crown Solicitor (Canter.bury), Messrs Wasons (solicitors) the late Minister of Lands: (Mr Rolleston), ithei Attorney- General, and the Solicitor- ■ General, with reference to Messrs Wasons.'; ; several applications under the forest Trees Planting, Act, belaid before •this House.—^Agreed to, ..-..'. ;...'. . IN COMMITTEE. ....,; ' The House' went- into " Committee- on the Canterbury- and Otago* Marriages Bill, whichpassed 'without ftmeadment. The bill was. read a third time and passed. The ParentsiAct 1883 Amendmant Bill w#»- committed ..and read a third time and paased. Mercantile Law Act Amendment "BilT was- committed, and read a third time and passed. . ' ".. /' ' '• ' ' • ■"Hb^ bolls. • '' ; i The following new bills ' were introv' educed :— ;A b.ill to define the hours of labour witbin the colony of New Zea* land ; bjllito extend the hours ot polling at parliainentary.electiohs ; Presbyterian .Church Property Bill ; Eepresehtation -Act, 1881, Amendment Bill ; Bible Reading m Schools Bill ;" Alienation of Lagd ' Bill. ; „..., motions. ■Mr Lance to move, That all papers and correspondence relating to an inquiry held by the Christchurch Hospital Board be laid before this House.