PARLIAMENTARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 217, 12 September 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

- '„ ..., Wellington, J^pnday. The House met at li"a.m,>nd at' once went into Commit tee- on the Lwid : Claims Act S ettleinent Repeal -Bill.- : Which passed without amendment..:. (Oh, the mption,; forthe third reading ]ftr Taiaroa objected on the ground that the "Bill Ma! noiij'been translated into the native tongue;'"- 'The motion was adjourned until to-Worrami. Qn.th* mption for; going into Committe* on,, the Thermal Springs District. BM Mr Andrews admitted that the" measure" was a useful one, but pointed out the clauses 1 he thought -were likely. to clash with, the object aimed. at., In CQmmittee b,e woHld-jpore in the direction of preTenting .'these springs from becoming the property of anyone, contending, as he did, that they should 1 continue the property of the Crown. ' i ; . : ;To .m«es; tbe Tiewi express*^ by tb,e Maori membora Mr Hall «aid that hVw.ouid be agrewble that the proVisfoni of ilis'Act as it itood ihould in thefirst initance r beconfloed to Tauranga and Eaafc Taupo.: ': He agreed in the opinion .expreiijßa that. this w»a a great national undertaking, and.would be the means of inducing a Targe' tourist population to yisit New Zealand. : i The motion for leaving the Chfcirwa* then put and carried. . Clauses 1 aba 2 were passed, after which progress was reporied, and tho House adjourned at 115 p.m. : In the House «o-day Mr HaH annaunced that the Goyernmeut would, for- this BfeaiioD, abaado:i with regret the Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill, and alao the Crownand NstiTe Lands Raiiog Bill .Roads Construction Bill, Sharebrokerß Act itepeal Bill, and Patents Act Amendmeut Bill.' A proposal bad been made to refer the Corrupt fractjceß Bjll to a Select Committee, and to morroK.he would announce what he intended to do.' The Public . Works Act Amendment iJill and Companieg Act Amendment Bill were likely to give rise to niuch discuesiop^ aqd there was very little hope, of passing them. If there was not much oppositidn they woo'd try to pas? the Fisheries and Frfendly Societies Bills, and also tbe the To*n DiHtricffi and CounMei Act Amendment Bills.- , The other .Cqnsojidatipu Bills he thought, migiit be i' passed' in' she morning sittings/ aiud if • nieniber^'^buTd Bummatiae their remarkst thb' Isstiaiateß. might be got through this wfifif, aftd Jlie ST«t iake plftqeftboofc »• «««• tf