PARLIAMENTARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 183, 31 July 1873, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

Housk op Representatives. Wellington, July 30. The Juvenile Offenders Act, introduced by Mr Steward, provides that males under sixteen may be cited before a Resident Magistrate for breaches of the Act, and the offendtrs may be sentenced to solitary imprisonment with or without whipping. Where whipping is ordered, it is to he inflicted withoat the precincts of the gaol. The Municipal Corporations Amendment Bill provides that the Council may make bye-laws for licensing hackney coaches within a certain radius; the Council may adopt, with or without any modification, any suh-divisions, or -parts not cub-divided in section I. part 10 of the 13th schedule of tbe Act. Kateß and fares of hackney coaches to be subject to amendment. Tiie Council may regulate public stands, including portions of railway station, with consent of pHßß<ngera. Penalties against bye-laws to be recovered in a summary way In reply to Mr O'Conor, Mr Yogel said the cost of telegraph extension to the Lyell township would be £41 00. If the Provincinl Government of Nelson would guarantee six per cent, on the cost of construction and maintenance, the Government would construct the Sine. Mr Eolleston asked the Postmaster-General, whether the Government will extend the steam service between Auckland and Fiji to the southern portions of the colony, and so as to embrace other islands of the Pa< ific, especially the bamoan group, and whether Government was in possession of any information whether action had been taken in accordance with the suggestion of the Poßtmnsfer-Gen.*ral, to promote the bringing those islands, or any of them, under the protection of Great Britain. Mr Yogel said the Government desired to extend the Mji service to the Southern provinces but the first invitation for tenders was not responded to. The Government had agreed with an advantageous fonder tor £100 per month The Government would communicate with the present contractors. If the service could be arranged, the Government would place a sum on the estimates tor the purpose. The Government perceived the importance of New Zealana's commercial rela'ions with the Pacific Islands. With regard to the question of a protecorate, a communication would be sent home by the present mail. Mr Harrison moVed that £30,000 be appropriated for a water-race from Randall Creek He deliver- d an able speech in support of it, and refer* ed to the extensive district affected, and the richness of the terraces, from which the miners brought down bags of stuil to wash in the creeks. The district had not received a fair share of the golilfiel'a loan compared with others. The Minister of Works said that only £80,000 was avai aide out of the go -fields loan; £70,000 was appropriated, and an additional £ 0,00 would be required for contingencies Application j* were ree ived to the amount of £12,nu0 If the lesoltition was carried .or more than the amount available to be appropriated, he suggested it should be ref ned io the Goldfields Committee. Their recommendation might influence the Governnient.. Mr Curtis sail that the matter had been before the Houso for three years; that N/lson had more miners than Otago. The patienoe of the people was exhausted jafclr. O'Conor said the Government had all

the necessary information. The Government wanted to shelve the question by reference to the Goldfields Committee. The Government should deal with the question in a broad and liberal spirit. Mr Harrison replied. He said he could not accept the invitation of the Minister of Public Works to reter the matter to the Goldfields Committee. The Government simply wanted to shelve the question. The Minister of Public Works was wrong in saying more information was reqtrired. All the necessary information was on the the tablo of the House, and ample money in the hands of the Government. If the Government granted this application there would be a large unexpended balance. He would press the motion to a division. The motion was carried on the voices. In reply to Mr Murray, the Premier said instructions would be given, in accordance with the recommendations of the Intercolonial Conference, for the preparation of a bill to render the Patent laws of the Colonies uniform, when drafts of matter would be considered. The following bills were real a first time : The Deceased Wife's Hster's Marriage Bill ; the Gold-mining Bill relative to quartz mining, and applicable to tlie Thames goldfields. The bill to amend the Justices of the Peace Act was introduced by Mr Gillies, to render the Auckland education rate recoverable. The bill to amend the Law Practitioners' Act, so as to make literary and general information in exam .nations passed in Great Britain for solicitor or barrister, applicableto the colony was introduced July 31. In the House last night Mr Stewart moved the second reading of the Justices Dv qualification Bill to prevent justices sitting on the licensing benches. Mr Sheehan suggested that insolvency should difqualiiy justices. Mr Thomson opposed the bill as an infringement of private rights and virtu»lly pronouncing the business of publicans as not respectable. He moved that the Bill be read a second time that day six months Mr Luckie sugg?s>ed an amendment of the bi 1 so as to disqualify publicans from sitting on lie* n>ing da*- s. The Premier rend the opinion of the AttorneyGeneral, that there was nothing unusual in the bill. He (Mr Yogel) did not think: it threw stigma on the publicans. Mr Wakefield argued that if publicans' were duqualified Avholesale merchants should be disqualified also. Mr J. Shephard approved of the bill. The Native Minister supported it. Mr Itolleston thought it should be more general. Mr M'Gillivray supported the views of Mr Rolleston Mr Gillips supported the bill. Mr Brandon thought the appointment of Magistrates should rest with the Superintendents Mr Fox supported the Bill, but thought it did n<>t go far enough. — Mr Fitzherbert thought the appointment of j ustices should rest with Ministers under the advice of the Superintendents — Mr Steward replied, and the Bill was read the second time. The Prisons Bill was referred to a Select f omrnitiee. Mr Johnson urged the Government to publish the correspondence relative to the terms upon which the Bank of New Zealand negociated half a million oi debentures in Australia. He said 'he rerurn showed that the Bank charged a quarter per cent for remitting part of the money to Wellington, and three eighths per cent for remitting part to London. As the Hank remitted at par for the Provincial Government of Canterbury, such aruteof exchange should not have been paid. Asa taxpayer he felt he had been plundered. Mr Cracrotc Wilson thought the -irrangaments between the Government and the bank hhould be made public. Mr Yogel said there was no objection to print the correspondence The terms between the Government and the bank were he same as iv Melbourne, but tlie bank here had not the same advantag* s. He deprecated attacking the Bank in the House., The publication of the correspondence was agreed to. A telect committee was appointed to revise the Acts relative to cruelty to animals.