PARLIAMENTARY.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 13, 1 December 1877, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

.;,■'•: [Per Press Agency.].. ;> ■v , >. : i WelUngtqn, Friday, v '■:. House met oat ;2.3o.— Native ; Afßairs Committee reported that Native Marriages' Validation Bill • was unnecessary •arid should not be proceeded. with;— Public Accounts Committee reported that m future retiring Ministers should vacate ministerial resid6ncesv 30 days, but that i f or ''present^sessioti'late should not be required to leave houses till after prbrpgatipjti. An hour and a hall was spent m discussing motion 'That report i be printed.' XJltimately this was agreed to, -^lnrep^y to questions, Ministers said : ; (1). They would complete as soon as possible , the unfinished mile of Picton & Blenheim ; Railway, and if possible arrange to have Opawa Bridge rendered available -for dray as well as railway traffic. (2); They would, during the recess, survey railway line from Duntroon to Carrow. ! (3). Very few copies of 2nd edition ' New Zealand Handbook ' had, reached the Government.—The Stamp Act Amendment •BUT and West. Harbor Borough Mayoralty Validatio|a .VSSll were oread a second time. „ ..^j-a.^'^^k^^'S^j ■ Legislative Council. has been granted leave ofsabsence for the remainder of the sessio^v % ; . •,..-./ i . ; In Committee on Land Bill, an amendment by Stout, to extend the system of deferred payments .to Canterbury pastoral landsV was lost on division by 30 i0~27. Bill read a third time and passed. -^Debatiß resumed, on. CivU' List Bill. HodgMnspn, Wood' arid .Thomson supported a reduction m \MLinisters' salaries and opposed any increase, m "numbers- Sbeehan, supported the. Bill; on • ;aac6iint/6f example it would set, but he ' thpuSht 8 ministers refluireij, and; that •2f parliamentary under'-secre taries would" Have, to be: appointed before long to. en.suto good parliamentary government. Reynolds opposed reducing salaries, arid also any increase m number of ministers. Moorehouse denounced measure as iri> sincere, but one not likely ;tpdeceiye or hoodwinlc the public ; reduction m Civil Service salaries was impossible. Bowen eontended'*ininisters' salaries were not excessive, and civil servants' salaries could not be reduced: he opposed par-: liamentary under-secretaries. Gibbs suppprted. Hunter.opposedßill. Montgohiery» ; Eelly ;and Murray supported Bill,* and opposed aiay increase irinumbier of ministers:; ."Gray; :strpriglys Sieged House to pass Bill: on account 'of the moral example it would seb, and as a protest against the extravagance which prevailed. The House would be acting unfairly and giving poor encouragement to Government to proceed with their bourse of retrenchment if. it rejected this the first step. On division, motion for info,: committee earned -by Speaker's casting vote ; 31 each side. ■ Speaker said though bound to vote for economy, he did not desire to go full length of. Bill. In .committee, Rollestbn moved; that .Chairman leave chair^ and after discussion;thi.s was carried on division— 32 "to 30. Bill, therefore^ shelved. „ ,- Greenwood Pension Bill passed.— i House rose at 12.35. ; ■