PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 61, 11 August 1885, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

• HOUSE OF RBPKKSENTATIVES. (UNITED JPIiESS ASSOCIATION.) < ■ ' WELiiiNpTON, Monday. The House met at 7.30 p.m. ■1 ...'■:. IN COMMITTEE.: •' ■ The .House went into Committed on the "Customs and Excise Duties Bill. '- ' Mr AVakeneld.moveil.that the ad(Ji-' tibnal duty of 6d -per gallon on Austral v > l|an wine be remitted, onlhe-groundt^jit it ; would : deal a Heribus bioW. tq an i&: portaii t trade existinisr between" Now Zea- t ' laud and Australian colonies. . •. . ■:■;,■■.% Mr Hiirsfr supported 1 -Mr Wakefield's view of tiiejihatter^ r :^ ;^' '"M,r; Joyce* opposed^ any remissio^.^f duty, on Australian rwineSVas^|iere''.'M^j na'reciproeity worthy, of th'^na&eiTe^sj t^ieen, New Zealand and- the jA'iiati;jfcljajfi4 '" colonies.,-« "--'^ :l --; ' ."'■■' '''\". .'" ■■J:^', 'vV.li: ]Sir -Julitis:- Vb^p^i^e^'put./^at^tho. 1 tax^rdiifised'. Svarfpr ;^e v^nue; purposes^ and ■it%^bnly t prQ^§r J^t.sJioultl'.b)i) placed!upon tneMux^^'- . v "^ ; ".^;- v: • ;•':: v.si~. On a division the clause referring to duty on Australian -\win'e of 4s 6d per gallon was carried 1)^,44 tq. : 2G. u.' : -i jjlJMr 'McMillan moved that < binder t^iri6beadtniEted^free. ;>- ,i-.J&' y^i-»i\ ";";:. A division being takenvi 1 the wasneg:atived'by;37^3l^ v rUi '^ -^"t. The schedule w^Jthe^^aep^'f,.;;^.^'' : '•■' '' ; ; :":'\ '•■.• ' "'ll'Jt,^'-'.--.} vTue&dsy^-' Tlie^fl!iMpifc^and:CharitaWe^Ai^;^^.^ was- further considered m• Cbmdiitt'ee.'. ; .' ■A'4i[)no;-,d^cußßibh-^k : plac6;6h'clSiM[V6, Which reterre^ io- the establishment of. • distirict boardaj .arid at .'ie^h/ progress•waftuepprted.* : (^ *'/ ' THe Gouipanies "Act and Fprei<»nijCom- ; panies-'Act- -Amendment; Bill^ „ and- Etcisie^Duties .Bill, Riyer '-^ouhds • Act ''Amendment !Biij,:^hippibff and Sea- s mens Xct- Amendment BillfWestlaliii and Education Boards Bill, were read a third time and passed. -; ; • '«> ' - '- The House rose at 1;20a.m.