HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 30, 3 July 1885, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House met at 2*30 p.m. ; , • ANSWERS, TO QUESTIONS. .-:..; Eeplying to 'questions, it was stated that it rwas intended to •appoint a Epyal C6panaission ! to J miji;ire into the questioii of the reUefbfztenaiitf On native reserves on tKe West Coast o£ ; the Middle Island; - —The construction of the Kanakana-and_ the jWhangarei railway - would he dealt with ih;the i |'ubUc" Works-^Statement.— The duties collected under the new tariff would be returned if not assented to by the House.— The nucleus of a superan-, nuaiiori : fund would be started, for distributing among railway employes' henefit societies the money accrued fromflepart- : merital fines. ' NEW BILLS. ' ' The followinsr bills .were introduced :—■ The Dunedin Cattle -Market Eeserve Leasing BiU (Stewart) ; a bill to expend the Adulteratiqn<P*eyentipn} Act (Le^es- > tarnj." ;-... "*'■' In the No-confidence debate the member for Eangitikei, Mr \ Bruce, referring at length to the question of free trade and prol;ecti6n,,said/{hat tb r ose;who car-/ rjed |he flag «ffrflet^do, whether Opposition or Government, would find him a 4oyal follower. < 'Too' mi«6h l^moWey 'had. been! spent on ill-advised immigration, and he thought .that it jvypuld have paid 'the' cbloriy to haver senV bkck ' a^large number of those who had been assisted to. come here. He thought too much prominence had been given m the debate to tlie depression. The best way to relieve ;the depression 1 ;Was, to make the people look to themselves and not to the Government.