WELLINGTON COLLEGE RESERVES CONFIRMATION.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1325, 20 October 1884, Page 4

WELLINGTON COLLEGE RESERVES CON FIRM ATION.

In the House oh F ;«1 v. < 1 ■<■• Lceal Bills Committee recommended m reference to this bill that it be allowed to proceed, at the same time pointing out that theStandipg Orders had not been strictly complied with. The evasion, however, was a slight one. : .;■....-. Dr Newman moved that the Bill be read a second time *on Thursday. Mr Macarthur considered it unfair that the residents of a district interested should not have had notice of the measure, and he therefore opposed the motion. Ihe Premier. pointed out that the residents .of Palmerston North had evidently <had oport unity of, examining^ the Bill, inasmuch as they had presented, a petition to the House against it. . .v . . Mr Steward urged that the House should enforce the Standing Orders. The Premier said that the House had overlooked an exactly similar defect m the Ohristchurch Market Reserves BilU Mr Shephard (chairman' of the committee, pointed out that the defect was purely one of formality and not of great import. The bill had been opet fo> inspection at the Besiderit M i gistrate'B Court, but the dates upon which it had been depb^ sited were not strictly m accordance with the law. Mr jifacarthur said the Bill proposed to grant to ihe WelliDgtoc College lands to which they had no right. . , ' ,--... Dr Newman, m reply, pointed out that, .the ,BiU was not a new, one, havng been before the Houselast session. It had also been submitted to close inspection m the Upper House, where it had been passed. He urged thf House inott to throw the Bill out on a purely technical objection. /j The question that the Bill be read a second time on Thursday was put. and a division called for. The result was as follows :— Ayes, 46.— Mlwright., Atkinson, Ballance, Barron, Beetham, Brad« shaiyh - Bradehaw, Bruce, Bryce, Buchauan (teUer), Dodsnn, Fitz« herbertj Eraser, Fulton, Grey, Grigg Hamlin, Hur^thouse, Johnston, Lake, Lance, Levestam, Locke, . M. J, S- Mackenzie, J, McKenzie, McMillan, Menteath, Moat, Montgomery, Newman (teller), Ormond, Peacock, Pearson, Eeese, "E. Eichardson, Eolleston, Russell, Shephard, Stout, Slitter, Taiaroa, T. Thompson, \J'. W, Thompson, Tole, Trimble, "Walker, W. White. Noes, 19.— Bevan, W, F. Buck» land, Connolly, Cowan, Duncan, Fergus, Hatch, H. Hirst; ; Hobbs, Larnach, Macarthur (teller), Morn ris, O'Callaghan (teller), G. F. Richardson, Samuel, Shrimski, W. D. Stewart, J. B. Whyte, Wilson.