WELLINGTON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 196, 18 August 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(From oar own correspondent.) [By Telegraph] Wednesday, 10 p.m. The Public Petitions Committee of the Legislative Council reported to-day on the petition of 64 Lincoln farmers that some steps be taken to abate the "am ill bird " nuisance from which the petitioners suffer , great loss. The Committee recommended that the County Councils and Road Boards be empowered to deal with the matter. The same Committee reported to-day on the petitions for and against the amendment of the. Education Act in the direction of Bible reading in schools. The Committee pronounce the matter one of public policy for the Parliament to deal with, and therefore decline to make any recommendation. Several petitions were received from legal practitioners and Law Societies against Sir George Grey's Law Practitioners' Bill, but the Committee make a similar report and decline to offer any recommendation to the Council. This afternoon the Attorney-General obtained in the Legislative Council leave to introduce a Bill entitled " An Act to amend the law relating to the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court of New Zealand." As yet, only the title of the Bill is drawn op, for the Bill itself will be founded on the report of the Judicature Commission when that is re oeived. The Joint Committee on the revision of Statutes reported to-day on the Public Works Bill drafted by the Statutes Revision Commisiiori. The 'report recommends that the Bill be passed with certain suggested amendments. The Committee- also direct the attention of Parliament to the following : points:— (l ) The Drainage Bill having now paised, clauses 190 to 204 of the Public | Works Bill relating to drainage through | private lands should be omitted; (2.) The: new clauses 24 to 26 proposed in the Bill relating to .the talcing of Native laDds bj Order in Council on payment of due compensation involve a change of policy on a question of grave public importance, and the Committee think it right to point this out. In Committee on the Prisons Act Amendment Bill Mr Hutchison ii to move the addition of the following proviso:— ''Provided always that prieon labor Bhall be restricted, to outdoor and manual labor of which the acquirement does not involve training or .skill." Mr Dick's Dog Registration Amendment Bill is circulated. It pro- ; vides that the dog3 f registration fee shall be not less than five nor more than ten shillings, at the discretion of the local authorities. Mr Kelly has given notice that in Committee on this Bill he will move that, in case of , dogs kept and used solely for the purpose of tending sheep or cattle on a farm or in exercise of the occupation of shepherd, exemption from payment of the registration fee may be claimed by the owner in respect of dogs not exceeding two in number kept by him solely for use in tending sheep or cattle, or in the exercise of his occupation as shepherd. This is a matter in which great interest seems to be taken by the country members and their constituents, so it will possibly evoke considerable discussion. Dr. Wallis' Annual Parliaments Bill contains only one operative clause, which runs thus : " Notwithstanding nnythiug in any former Act or law contained, every future House of Representatives shall, unless the General Assembly be sooner dissolved, continue for a period of one year only, to be computed from the day fixed for the return of the writs issued for-choosing such House, and no longer." This is supposed to be one of the Honorable and Reverend Doctor's ponderous jokes, and is an illustration of the way the time of Parliament is wasted and the country put to needless expense to gratify the small vanity of mediccro men who crave notoriety. In the House this afternoon, Mr Hutchison presented, a petition from Alfred James Remer, a telegraphist, praying for compensation through being unable to obtain employment as telegraphist in Australia, owing to the New Zealand Government having forwarded his name there as having taken part in the strike here, the consequence being that he had been many months out of work, and was still unable to earn a livelihood, besides having been suhjected to 6ev «e loss, inconvenience, and hardships. Ab Mr Stewart's raotiqn of eenstire is not

very likely to be reached at all this sessionbeing so far (town on the Order Paper, this petition may bring on a discussion relative to the action of the Government regarding the telegraphists who were dismissed for striking, and tten posted all over the Australian colonies. The following are the proposed Nelson electorates in the schedule of the Representation Bill printed to-night. Nelson is bounded towards the north-west and north by the sea; from the lighthouse on the Boulder Bank towards the "east by the soutU-west : angle of section 1 Suburban North thence by the south-western boundary of the said section^ thence by the north-west, west, south, and east boundaries of section 60, Suburban North aforesaid, and by the east, south, and part of the south-east boundaries of section 59 Suburban North, thence.by the south-west boundary of section 11, Brook-street and Maitai District, to the bank of the River Maitai, thence by the western bank of the said river to a point on the prolongation of the boundary of section 11 Maitai District; thence along the western boundary of the said section 11 to the south-west corner thereof , thence by part of the south boundary of the said section Jo its intersection with the western boundary of section 20 Maifcoi District, thence along the said western boun-i dary of the said section 20, Maitai District ] and the western boundary of section 23; Maitai District, and the north-western boundaries of sections 21 and 24, Maitai District, thence along the line dividing section 24, Maitai District, from the Suburban section 1, Brook-street Valley District, thence alocg the southern boundary of parts of section 34 Maitai District, section 27 Brook-st. Valley District, and the other part of section 34 Maitai district aforesaid, thence along the north-western boundary of part of section 34 a ,"^jesaid, section 16, square 18 on the plau cf the l'rJr! nCO of Nelson to a point on a public road forming *' ac north-eastern boundary of section 35 Maitai a/:!*' 06 afrtresaid, thence along the north-western bcuC darv of

section 21 and that line produced until intersected by the production of the north-western boundary of section 1 Brock-street Valley and Mailal districts aforesaid, thence along the said iiac to a public road forming the remainder of the north-western boundary of the said section 1 Brook-street Valley district aforesaid, thence along the continuation of the said public road to the south-western corner of the said section 7 Maitai and BrookBtreet Valley districts aforesaid, thence along the north-eastern boundaries of sections 12, 17, 16, 11, and part of 12, Suburban South districts to the Britannia Heights, thence by the eastern boundaries of section 4 and 1 Suburban South district aforesaid to the eastern corner of the said section 1 Suburban South district aforesaid, thenca along the north-eastern boundary of the said section 1 Suburban South aforesaid to high water tnaik Nelson Haven, thence by a line to the south-western angle of Fifesbire Island, thence by the outer edge of the Boulder Bank to the starting poiot. Motueka is bounded towards the northwest and north-east by the sea to the Waitnea survey district, thence towards the southeast and south by sections 53, 52, 52a, 50, GG, and 67 of the said District, thence by sections 31, 23, 25, 39, 38, 37, 186, 188, 190, 213. 267, 107, 105, 103, 101, 99, 98, and IC3. Waimt a survey district to the western corner of the last mentioned section, thence by a right lins to the north-east corner of section 169 of the said district, thence by that section and sections S6, 63, and 62, t0 Stanley Erook, thence by sections 78, 77 of the above named districts to the Motueka river, thence by that river to the watershed between the rivers Tadmor and Moiupiko at the southern boundary of Section 136, thence by the Watershed by the Merino mountain, thence by that range and by the Lyell mountain to the summit of Mount Arthur, thence by a right line to Sno^vden, thence by a straight line to Mount Domett, and thence by a straight lins to Kobaiha Bluff. Waimea is bounded towards the west by the Motueka electoral district, towards the north by the sea, towards the east and southeast by the Picton and Wairau electoral districts, and towards the south-west by the Inangahua County, excluding from the above description the electoral district of Nelson, and including Durville Island and other adjacent lauds The Buller is bounded towards the north and north-east by tha Motueka Electoral District and the Waimoa Electoral District, towards the East by the summit of the St. Arnaud and Spencer mountains to Mount Una. thence towards the south by a straight line through the confluence of the Warwick with the Maruia to the Bruuner rarige, thence by a line to the confluence of the Cohen with the Mangles river, thence by a right line continued due west to Bucklacd's Peak, again towards the south east by the summit of the waterside cf the Paparima mountain, again towards the south by the Razor Back Creek and towards the north-west by the eea. Eeefton is bounded towards the north by the Builer Electoral District, towardß the east by the BUmmit of the Spencer range to the saddle between the Hurunui and Tereinakau rivers, thence towards the south-west by a straight line to the outflow of the Arnold river from Lake Sumner, thence by the said Arnold river to the Grey river, thence again towards the south-west by the eaid Grey river to a point one and a half miles to the north of Coal Creek, thence | towards the west by a straight line to the eummit of the nearest spur of the Paparoa mountains, and thence by (he summit of the said mountains to the source of the Razorback Creek. Greymouth is bounded towards the north by the Buller electoral district, thence towards the east ani the north- east by the Reefton electoral district to the saddle between the Hurunui and the Teremakau river?, thence towards the south by the said Teremakau river to the ocean, and thence towards the west by the ocean to Razorback Creek.