HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 23, 25 June 1885, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House niirt' at '2 30 p.m. QUESTIONS. : It was stated that the first part of the Maori lexicon would be ready m January next. The increased duty on boots, from 10 per cent, to 15 per cent., was imposed for • reveiiue purposes. . Government .could not make provision for the expenses of accused m criminal ' cases. : Government had under consideration the placing of a sum on the estimates to ! give effect to the" report m the petition of Alfred Charles Turnbull. . : District i-ailways would be constructed Under The Local Finance and Powers Bill at the request of local bodies, who would be responsible for half the cost* ■ ••".. No correspondence had been received respecting the, action of the University Senate m proscribing a certain class of books lor the use of male and female atudehts. ' ■ .-. ■■•$ i >■•'■■■ ••■■ •, ■ ■ - . ;,: { ■■>' ] ■:■ '■ NKW BILLS. The following bills were introduced : — The Friendly Societies Act Amend. ;ifaent-Bill (O'Connor), The Thames Haryuqur Board Empowering Bill (Pra'ser), The Eating Api^enament Bill (Turu•bull),; The ; Jiistticefr of the Pe:icc Act J'Aniendment Bill (Tqle), The Divorces • and"" ; Slatrinionial Causes Act 18G7 A.m'endme,nt Bill (Tole), a Bill to Amend, the. Impo'una'irt6 A6t"1884 (Bucldaridj, The Sale-of-Pokons Bill (Hatch), a ljill to Auth^ri^# ihe Corporation of the Town of lrivercaf'jiU to Consolidate Certain' Loans (Hatch), The Mines ;lb77 Amendment Bill (Seddon),,; :• ■ v*> .-.;•,. ■„* ■;■'.. ''} EARLY HOURS FOR. THE-HQUSE. ... ;, McMacandrew moved, TWt for the "remainder -of the session this" House shall meet at half-past/'lO'd'clq^inv'trie" /for6npph, and that the 'Standing- Orders . •'{Jb'mrnittee be instructed to* amend' the Standing Orders sci as to give effect to tlie resolution. The motion, after a lengthy was carried by 38" against 31. Mr Fiteherbort 'moved, That -it : be-, an 'intimatipn to the Standing : Oiders Committee to consider and report, as- to the desirability ofc.scmie rule m the athendirient of the' ; Standing Orders , ; m the direction that when the': House has been counted, twice during' the speech of any honourable member,- such, speech shall, after tlie second Counting, be .deemed to. be concluded....,..'/ ...■".' -..,■•:■.. Mr Stout- opposed the motion as being against all liberty of speech. After some discussion the motion was negatived, and the House adjourned. Tlie House resumed at 7;30 p.m. PLURALITY VOTING BTLL. .'. Sir George Grey moA r ed the second reading of the Plurality Voting Bill. Mr Peacock opposed the bill, as he considered its proposals should be embodied m a more comprehensive measure. The Hon. Mr Stout favoured the bill • because he considered one vote sufficient for each man. Messrs Hobbs, Dargaville, and Snrth supported, and Messrs Buckland and Hurst opposed the bill. The, second reading was agreed to, on a division, by 37 to 25. ■■.'.. LAW PRACTITIONERS' BILL. Sir George Grey moved the second reading of The Law Practitioners' Bill. , Mr. Hobbs considered the bill a dangerous one, and m(>v.ed as an amendment" That the bill be read six months hence. Messrs Moss, M. J. B. McKenzie, Joyce, Turnbull, Fraser, Levestam, Hislop, Siddon, and Fisher spoke m support of the bill, and Messrs Samuel, Garrick, and Menteath against the principle. Sir George Grey having replied, a division was taken on the motion that the bill be now read a second time — Ayes, 30 ; noes, 28. ' " The bill was ordered to be committed on the 15th July. Thursday. The report of the Standing Orders -Committee on Mr Macandrew's motion for the House meeting at 10,30 m the forenoon will be discussed m tlie House this evening.