PARLIAMENTARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 233, 30 October 1876, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wellington, Saturday. The House resumed at 2./,?. on the Supplementary Estimates, and all the remaining votes were passed unaltered. The Jmmigration and Public Works appropriations were also passed without alterations. The House went into Committee of the whole to consider the introduction of a clause into the Immigration and Public Works Appropriations Bill, for the purpose of enabling the Government to baud over to the Comity of tbe Thames the mortgage held on the Pumping Association's plant. The resolution was agreed to. Jn Committee of Ways and Means a resolution was passed voting £2,320, .8(5 for the of Public Works and Immigration. The Legislative Council insisting upon their amendments in the Rating Bill, a free conference was decided to be held between i>oth Houses.

The Immigration and Public Works Appropriation Bill was passed, through all its stages. In Committee, the item £2500 for Taranaki Great South Koad was passed, and tbe House adjourned till 7.30. The House resumed at 7.30. In Committee of Ways and Means, the ' following resolutions were agreed to towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty:— £1,264,432 out of the Consolidated 1< und; £40,000 out of the Ways and Means in connection with the defence loan; £11,900 granted out of Ways and Means for State J? orests, ro be transferred to a Consolidated I und; £304,226 to be granted out of Land I uud of New Zealand; £19983 to be granted out of Confiscated Lands Account; £13140 to be granted out Trust Fund of New Zealand The Appropriation Act was read a third time and passed. The conference of both Houses on tbe Counties Bill were unable to agree, and a new conference was appointed. The result was that the Premier announced that they agreed on tbe following basis:— The County Chairman to be elected by tbe Council and not to be disqualified from sitting in the House of Representatives. The ordinary loan clauses were strck out. Special loans to be limited to tour times tbe rateable property in thecouuty leaving increase iv overdraft as provided by the Council, Other amendments were only trivial. At midnight the House adjourned till 2.30 ou Monday.