PARLIAMENTARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 185, 2 August 1873, Page 2

PA RLIAMENTARY.

House of Representatives. Wellington, August 1. Mr Yogel to-day is evidently provoking opposition. It is supposed that he desires a dissolution with the object of strengthening his party at the elections. In the House to-day, Mr Yogel stated j he had no intention of amending the Mining Companies Act of last year. The Minister of Public Works will make his stntement early. Mr Yogel said that Queensland prohibited the importation of atock, and he would do so also. Mr M'Lean said he had no intention of making a statement on native matters. Mr Yogel said the new Tariff would only cause an increase of revenue of £50,00. Most people had a mistaken notion of the differences between the new Tariff and the old one. Mr Sheeban asked whether native measures were to be laid before (he House. Mr Yogel said Government did not _ admit thejoßCPsulty. af cHecussiuu. MT Yogel also said Government had no intention of increasing the vote for watersupply to Goldfielda to half a million. The Provincial Officers Disqualification Bill was read a first time. The Cable Subsidy Agreement Ratification Bill went inio Committee. Mr Stafford objected to the bill, and pointed out many defects. Mr Yogel said that another offer was to be made about the cable. Mr Yogel said fresh proposals had been made by M'Meckau and Blackwood respecting the mail service, which would have to be submitted to the House. . Mr Batbgate denied having stated in the House that he had not read certain bills introduced by him, as stated by the Evening Post. The Post's report was incorrect in every particular. The Speaker said newspaper reporters were admitted to the gallery by favor of the House. Their reports should be correct. He would take care that reports in the Press should he correct. Mr Gillies said Mr Bathgate was rash in stating that the report in the Post was incorrect in every particular. Tb.9 report in the Post was correct. All the reporters in the gallery affirmed the correctness of the Post's report, and he denied the Speaker's authority to interefere with newspaper reporters. The Speaker has excluded the Post's reporter from the gallery. Wellington, August 2. In Committee last uighfc, progress was reported on the Provincial Powers Bill to enable the Government and members to reconsider the Bill. After a long discQSsion the Premier and the House decided that both sought the same end. The Speaker referred to Mr Buhgate's complaint of the Evening Post's report, and said that the reporter had refused to wait upon him, and the editor had challenged his (the Speaker's) right to order any one on his staff to do so. Messrs Yogel, Stafford, Gillies and the House generally condemned the action taken by the Speaker as a mistake, and referred to the error in the report being evidently not intentional. The Speaker, in a huff, said that in future he should take no notice of errors in reports except, on tliH motion that «ho Speaker do leave the r hair. Tie Post, Office Act Amendment Bill, the Wttnhdyke uud Pieasitm Point kailway Bill, and the Rank Holiday Bill wese read «be eer-ouci time. Tim Canterbury Wi'ilb ol Tires and Cuuterbury Waste Lands Bills were commit ted. A Select. Committed was appointed to consider r he Dl 3. aae I Oaiile Act.