PARLIAMENTARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

[The first portion of yesterday'i Parliamentary proceedinga >ill bs found oa tke fourth pags.l WbllingtoWj Thursday. - On the motion for going into Committee of Supply on the Supplementary Estimates adhcussion arose as to the Government's action m refining; to allow the Brogdens to try their cltims by petition of right. Several members argued that the claims should be tested at law in tha ordinary way. Mr Hall laid one claim wag now.being to tried, and until they saw tha rssalt they could not gay what they would do about the others. They ware prepared to treat all fair claims not only justly but liberally. In Committee of Supply on the aapplementary estimates, in Class 1, Legislature, £3648, the item cutlery and elactroi-plata for Bellamy's £98 was struck out on tha voices. The remaining items were passed, as were also the following :— Class 2, Colonial Secretary A 18,842 ; Class 3 Colonial Treasurer £2526 ; Class 4, Minister of Justice £859 ; Clbbs 5, Postmaster- General £1103; Class 6, Customs £1132; Class 7, Stamps £52Class 8, Education £9200} Class 9, Native £8042 ; ClaBS 10, Mines £638 ; Claw 11 Pnplic "Works £1632 ; Class 12, Defence £1i,760 ; Class 13, Lands £19,928, On the item £10,000 for the abatement of tha rabbit nuiiancs, a motion to reduca it by one-half was lost by 26 to 9. A. motion to omit the item " remhsibn of royalty to Westport Coal Company, £531" was negatived onjthe voices, and the rota passed. The following public works funds were also agreed to:— Class 3, railways £5000; Class 5, roads £1,158 ; Class 6, Native land purchase £565; Class 9, public buildings £3200; Class 10, lighthouses and harbors £1168; Class 11 contingent ittauce £100,000. The following other rotes were passed :— Governmiat InsuraMce Department £2750 ; Consolidated fund : services not provided for £57,420 ; Public Works fund : unauthorised expenditure £34,123; extra supplementary estimates £14,710. The Housa rose at 4 a.m. until 11 o'clock. Tfiiß Day. The House met at 11 a.m. Keplying to Mr De Lautour, Mr Kolleston said that all liabilities for volunteer uniforms incurred bona jidt prior to the withdrawal of the capitation allowance would be provided for. A message was received from the actingGoveraor sending down amendments in the Kepresentation Bill to the existing electoral rolls, and to provide that each of the new districts should, for purposes of registration, be deemed to have been constituted six months. The amendments were agreed to. The Appropriation Bill was introduced and read the first time. Oa the motion for the second reading Mr Seddon spoke at great length uposi tha injustice to be dona to the West Coast in tha Matter of roads. The motion for the second reading was carried, the Bill was considered in Committee, passed throueh and reported without amendment, read the third time and passed The Hoasa adjourned at 116 p.m Tha following clause is embodied in tha Appropriation Bill:— In lieu of the gums payable as subsidies to County and Borough Councils, and to Road Boards and Hirer Boards under section fire of the Financial Arrangements Act, 1876, Amendment Act 1877, there shall be paid out of the consolidated fund during the nine months of tha current financial year from the Ist day of April last past to the 31§t December next, both days inclusive, in respect of all sums received by -way of general rates during the year ending the 3 1st March, 1881, the sumi following:—! To aaah Borough Council a sum equal to 7b 6d for every pound of general rates go received by each such Council ; (2) To each

Koad Board and River Board a sum eqnal ' to los for every pound of general rates so ' received by Bac h auch board ; (3) To each ' Council a nnm equal to 10s for every • pound ,of general ratea so received o? «ach such Council, or equal to 10s • for every pound on the total of sqms bc- re- ■ C6^ e iT b '^ aU " BmA Board3 within tfa e county whichever of such two sums is the greater, 1 P r °Tiaed that in acy Cotinty wbera no Road ■tfoard exists, or in respect of general ratea lened m ftH y par t of the County not included in a Road District there shall be paid to the Council of each such County 90s ifdr every pound of general rates so received. Provided *£** for the purposes of this section n» sums shall be deemed to be received by any such Council or Board in excess of the sum receivable on a. rats of one shilling in the pound of the annual value of rateable property, aad thii proviso shall be deemed to have been in operation in any previously existing ehactmaht providing for the paytuftnt of subsidies to local bodies.