The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAT 23, 1868. PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 121, 23 May 1868, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAT 23, 1868. PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Friday, May 22. The Speaker took the chair at 11 o'clock. All the members were present except Mr. Bentley. Mr Home moved without notice the suspension of the Standing Order, 1 35, for this day, ■which was seconded by Mr F. Kelling, and carried unanimously. The Provincial Secretary then moved that Standing Order,, No. 135, be rescinded, and the following be substituted in lieu thereof: — 'That the Speaker shall order strangers to withdraw at the request of three of the members present.' The motion was seconded by Mr Home. Mr Donne moved as an amendment that Order ISS be abolished; and persisted in quoting at considerable length from Hansard, in reference to the subject, though frequently interrupted by manifestations of impatience on the part of hon. members. Mr Gibbs seconded the amendment pro forma. Mr Home opposed it, considering it would be an act of insanity to abolish rules which had been long found by the House of Commons to be useful and valuable, simply because they had been grossly abused in a recent instance. The amendment, was lost on division by a majority of 21, Mr Donne being the sole dissentient. The Provincial Secretary, in reply, said that the abolition of the Order had become necessary through the repeated abuse made of it by a member of the- House, to the serious obstruction of the public business, and the motion was then put and passed." The Provincial Secretary then moved theadoption of the Resolutions appended to the report of the Select Committee on Paragraph 14 of the Superintendent's Address, with reference to the relief of destitute children, which was carried. Mr Gibbs' motion, with an amendment by Mr Pitt, that, for the purpose of facilitating the action- of the Cattle Slaughtering Act passed this session, the District or Chief Constable in each district should be supplied with copies of the cattle brands, as registered by owners of cattle, was carried. On the motion of Mr Wastney, the adoption of the report of the Select Committee on the consolidatioa and amendment of the laws relative to country roads, was assented to. On the motion of the Provincial Solicitor, the Goldfields Licensing Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr Macmahon's motion to place on the Supplementary Estimates the sum of £50, for the repair of a road known as the Valley Road Riwaka, was carried. , . Mr Sparrow's motion for a select committee to take into consideration the petition of the settlers of Takaka and Collingwood; Mr Bum's motion, for the adoption of the report on the Charitable Fund, and that by Mr Simmonds for the adoption of the report, on the, Hospital Committee Eeport, were each carried, as was also Mr Baigent's motion for a sum of £150, for the purpose of exploring and cutting a line from the end of Kochfort's horse track, through the Wangapeka District to the Mokihinui River, on the West Coast. The report of the select committee for the.consideration of the memorial of storekeepers and miners in the Upper Grey District, was, on the .motion of- Mr Dreyer, read and adopted.

Mr Wastney's motion, to suspend the improvement of the access from the Waimeas to Nelson, as voted by the Council on the 20th inst, until the various lines of road available lor this ,pur- I pose have been accurately examined, and plans and estimates of the necessary works prepared and submitted to this Council, was carried by 14 to 5. The further consideration of the Estimates was postponed until Tuesday next, and the Council then adjourned at 1 o'clock until 5 o'clock on Tuesday next.