PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 73, 25 August 1885, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

: HOUSE pi?- itEPRESENTATIVES. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION;) '■ - Wellington, Tuesday. ; In the Divorce Bill, Mr Samuel moved another new) Clause, providing; that m case of •where, either .parties ■ became insane and iyere confined m a lunatic asylum for; seven years same ghould, begi^ound fpr a divorce. . .•This Clause ■ met with |jtrpft.£ opposition, and Several motions to report, progress, were tabled. • ■; ' '"' ' ; ' "Mr ; Samuel thought the: Committee Was not. m a frame of mind, to consider, eueh animpdrtant measure, and heth^ei fore moved, to report progress, which was carried. . , : . ;i,. . - In Committee" af Supply, the I#iprest: y supply Bill' of^ ;£300,000 Ayas ihtroduced; - "Replying to^Majpr Atkihson, Sir jTuliusj ' Ypo-el said ;tliat£ 100,000 was on account- : bf i the Consolidated Fimd, and J£ioQ,Oj3p; •on accpunt'of Public NVorks Fund. Z:sa '\ • MMajorr r Atkinson l said that the returns; laid on the table that a very; •Urge expenditure had been incurrfed on ; account ofrthe Public Works Fund dur-. ihg the fifst f pur months of the year., 0 )ntracts had. been enterod into inyolv . ing the;expeinliture.o/half a million; and ■ liabilities to the extent of £100,000 had been let since/-.; If this^ expenditure was . jgoinjst ou, ; a large lOaii would, he conr tended, liter needed. . . . • ■"" :: - Sir Julius Yogel said that the v expendi. : tureoujt of tlie. Piiblic Works Fund dur- ' ,insr trie last, four months had been at the 'rate of £850^000^ year. -. - The; Bill was then passed through all: its-stages. ■• \ ' "■::' :■.■ .''.v'!'..''.'.- . : : The Government Officers Guarantiee: Bill was reaid a second time. The Parcel Post Bill was disci arged ffornthe order paper. .:■ : -The House went into Committee on ihi Justices 'rot Peace i Amendment Bill. Aa ahtendinent was made to - Ckuse j2O, providing that a rota should be only kept by boroughs. ;' v ,;l •' r ■;•;.- '".- Mr- Tole moved a new Clause,' m the place of those providing that a rota should be kept; aftdthat a justice absenting himself twice should be struck off the commission. The Clause allowed a justice to make an explanation re not attendance within pne month. ' ; Mr Macarthur moved a proviso that a justice wishing temporarily tp leave the colony, ■ may:- ■ obtain leavel' . Agreed to. The Clause was agreedto. The, Bill was read, a third time, and passed-.- ■■'-' •" ' ";■'. -'';/■' ' ' : " "... t ; Progress was reported 6n the Rating. Act Amendment Bill.. , • The House' rose at ; :