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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1727, 27 September 1862, Page 6

COUNCIL. messages xo thb transmitted to the *. „ Messages were -ordered them of the foregoing -legislative Council info 1 '® proceedings, appropriation bill. tt N^ IV in movin g second reading of , Hon. that it proposed to extend the grant tthifl Bill, 0 f three years; that, instead of coming to '■over a for a yearly vote to carry on his native •th®? the amount proposed should be given till 1866 Iffotder that his Excellency might have three years ile ar before hiip to bring his plans to a successful issue. The bill was then read a second time and committed forthwith. Upon the second clause being, read, fixing the period when the Act shall terminate at 31st December, 1865, Mr, STAFFORD said he did not think it wise to ask this extension of time: for if the policy was any way successful, as they all hoped it would be, ho was sure that at the end of the term the House would willingly grant even larger sums to carry on the policy. Ho hoped Ministers would not press this point to a division. The proposition wasoniy implying distrust in the House. Hon. Mr. BELL said the House would be perfectly satisfied with a yearly vote; and in the proposing the extended time no distrust was implied. Mr. STAFFORD was very much gratified to hear what the hon. member had said. He did not wish the period less than three years. Ho would like to see the grant date back for the first of January last. After some discussion of a conversational character, Mr. STAFFORD moved an amendment, making the grant proposed commence from 30th day of June, 1862, and terminate on the 30th day of June, 1865. Amendment put and agreed to; and the remaining clauses having been gone through the bill was reported, read a third time and passed, and ordered to be transmitted to the Legislative Council. APPROPRIATION BILL. The House went into committee upon this bill, and after a lengtqened discussion on the period to which the appropriation should extend.—March 31st, 1864, was agreed upon, and the bill ordered to be further considered in committee to-morrow. MILITIA BILL. Hon. Mr. WARD moved the second reading of the Militia Act Amendment Bill, which he explained was simply a bill amending the old bill in a few necessary points, in accordance with the decision of the joint committee appointed to consider the matter. Bill read a second time and ordered to be committed presently. DELEGATIONS CONTINUANCE ACT. Hon. Mr. WARD moved the second reading of a bill to continue delegations of power from the Governor to Superintendents, notwithstanding a change of Governor. Bill read a second time and ordered to be committed presently. COMMENCEMENT OF ACTS BILL. On motion of the hon. Mr. WARD, a bill, providing that all Acts of ’the General Assembly, in which no time for coming into operation is fixed, shall come into operation three months from the date of receiving the assent of the Governor, was read a second time and ordered to be committed presently. LAND REVENUE APPROPRIATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2.) Hon COLONIAL TREASURER moved the second reading of this bill, which provides for the refund to the Provinces of the Reserved Land Fund Sixths. Bill read a second time and ordered to be committed presently. HOUSE IN COMMITTEE. The House then went into committee on the four bills just read a second time. The Delegations Continuance Bill was reported without amendments, the others with amendments; and all passed through their remaining stages. PETTY SESSIONS COURTS BILL. On motion of Mr. CARLETON this bill was read a second time, considered in committee, reported with amendments, and passed through its remaining stages. The House then adjourned at five minutes to one o’clock, a.ra.