PARLIAMENARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 236, 1 October 1873, Page 2

PARLIAMEN ARY.

Wellington, October 1. In lhe House yesterday Mr Wakefield tabled a motion to be moved when going into committee on ways and means to the effect that the House regrets that the Bouse did not adopt the Constitutional coarse, on the Provincial Government

Empowering Bill beiog thrown out by the Upper House, by resigning, with a view of enabling the Governor to send for the member who moved the amendment. Mr Wakefield delivered a long speech on Immigration, on the motion for the adoption of the resolution from the Committee of Supply. The resolution was agreed to. The Imbecile Passengers Bill waa committed. The bill throws on the Superintendents the onus of obtaining from masters, owner-?, or charterers of vessels briDg imbecile persons to tbe colony bonds for £100 for each such person brought out, against which maintenance may be charged. Messrs Fitzherbert, Swanson, Gillies, and Bunny urged that imbecile persons brought out by the colony should be at the charge of the colony, and not of the province to which they might be brought. Mr Fitzherbert moved a new clause to that effect, which Ministers opposed. The amendment was lost, the vote being 13 to 16. The bill was then reported without amendments, aod read a third time. Mr Fifzherbert moved that should the Speaker make an award during tbe recfss re(iardiu*i the Wellington clauses of the Rangitikei and Manawatu Crown Grants, the Government should be empowered to pay the award, if any, to the Proviuce. Mr M'Lean said if a proviso were added for the money to be paid out of sums devoted to the purchase of native lands for Government, he would not oppose it. Mr Fiizherbert reluctantly accepted the proviso, which wbs then added to the resolution and carried. On the motion of Mr M'Lean, the Native Councils Bill was discharged, Ministers to re-introduce it next session. The Native Laud Claims ReheariDg Bill was read a third time. The Wellington Harbor Reserves Mortgage Realization Bill was read a second time, committed, and read a third time. Mr Wakefield's motion of censure fell through, there being no seconder. The Appropriation Bill was read the first time. I On the motion for the second reading, | Mr Fitzherbert spoke at length, blamiDg Ministers for the climax of the session, in 1 ihe rejection of the Loan Bills by the Upper House. He said Ministers promised to use ail constitutional means, but had not done so. The had Dot acted loyally to the House, and had lost their policy, but retained their seats. Mr Vogtl replied, showing that the session wns not barren of results. In tbe matter of Education, the Immigrants Land Bill, Native Land Purchase, Railways, and Tariff, the Government had acted loyally, but the House did not desire further action regarding the loans this session. The Government had always bad a large majority in the House, and would resign on the slightest provocation. Mr T. B. Gillies pointed out tbat one only of the eleven measures promised in the Governor's opening speech had passed, and many were not even introduced. The Appropriation Bill was read the third tima. In the House to-day, Mr M'Lean said tbat the King, who for so long kept in isolation, spent last night at Alexandra, and returned to-day to Kuiti with the intention of going to Kawhia to get up a great feast, at which Europeans are to be present. In reply to Mr Sheehan, Mr M'Lean said the Government intended to recommend the Governor to pardon Hone Weki, who was convicted some years since of manslaughter.