THIS DAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 133, 4 June 1875, Page 2

THIS DAY.

The Council met at eleven o'clock. — The Scab Act was read the third time and passed. Mr Shephabd moved, " That in (he opinion of this Council it is not desirable to expend the funds of the proviiice in entertaining bis Excellency the Governor." The General Government voted travelling expenses for the Governor, and he did not see why the province should be put (0 any expense. —Mr WastneY soconded the motion. — Some discuesion look place on the subject, aud one or two amendments were proposed. Eventually the Provincial Secretary asked Mr Shephard to withdraw his motion to allow him to move the following which might be carried without being invidious with regard to the Governor:— "That in the opinion of thiß Council, no expenditure under the item "General Contingencies" should be incurred for fetes, entertainments, or celebrations." Pc moved this with a view lo the opening of the railway, as well as the approaching visit of the Government. — Mr ShepBARD was willing to withdraw his resolution. He had an end in view, and did not care by what road he travelled so long as he attained it, A good deal had been snid about the Governor being the Qupen's representitive. He held the Queen in the highest reverence inasmuch as she represented the British people, but with regnrd to any honor to be paid to the Governor as her representative, why, so was a constable, and he, for one, would not bow down and *---r-> : p a gentleman because h«J wore a blue coat and bright buttons. — The Pronincial Secretary's resolution was then put and carried. The Appropriation Bill was passed, and the Council adjourned uutil a quarter to four o'clock. Upon their re-assetnhling Mr Donne commenced what promised to be a long .speech upon a certain resolution of his that was bst night adjourned for a week, but what he intended to say was lost to posterity by the Superintendent entering the Chamber and delivering the following PROROGATION SPEECff. Mb. Speaker and Gbxtlkmex of the Provincial Cooxcit — I have assented, on behalf of his Excellency the Governor, to the following Acts: — An Act to amend the GoldfieMs L?cal Revenues Act AnvAct to authoriss the Errction of Tollgates or B rs in thejroviuce of Nelson, and the levying of Tolls there »t An Act to atnen.i and repeal the Nelson Waterworks Acts An Act to amend the Nelson Sojb Act, 18C8 An Act jto amend the Nelson Highways Act, 1872 An Act to appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Ntlson fur ihe year ending thirty-first (fay of March, One ThouBand Eight Hundred and Seventy-six I will do all that lies in my power, wiih the co-opera'ion of the other mumpers for the Province, 10 obtain from ihe General Assembly the funds necessary for the <oDstroction of tl.e many important public works specified in the schedule, io which you have unanimously r.greed. The representation which you have made to tl,e Hon Minister for Public Works in urging the completion of the promised resurvey of the Foxhill t»nd Brunner on Railvay, in time for the approaching session of the General Assembly, will, I trust, have the desire>i i ffect. I will convey to the Colonial Government the expression of your anxi.ty for^the speedy completion of the water race from Lake Hociisfetter lo Nelson Creek, and also that of your desire for the extension of telegraphic communication from Motueka to Collingwood. Your wishes in regard to the compilation and r> publication of the Provincial Acjs at present in operation, in continuation* oTthe work so ably sxecnted by Mr Sharp, in 1863, shill be carried iuto execution as soon as possible. On b half of the Province, I thank you for the aS'iduity you have shown in the consideration and despatch of the pubic business. I now deflate this Council p orogued. Oswald Curtis, Superintendent. The payment of the members then commenced, and they were busily engaged in receiving their cheques when our reporter left the Chamber.