PARLIAMENTARY.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 137, 2 August 1876, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

j [iMCi: ri’r.SS AGKNCV.] j HOUSE OF 1HPI! ICSENTA'FIVES. YTllinotox, August I. The House met at 2.30 p.m. Tdr Toiiks the new" for Auckland "West. N*ck the oath and Ills seat, i Fourteen days adjournment granted to List Coast Election Committee. The j Premier announced that, although they did j not entirely agree with the derision of the i Committee, they would not offer any opi position to Kariatiarm taking Ins seat. 1 Mr Curtis . loved that to-morrow, at 2-‘MJ, | the clerk shoird make necessary alteration 1 in the wiii, and .hat Karaitiana take his j seat thereafter. j Mr Richardson made a statement rei goading the destruction of the Grey.'" ' Gorge Bridge, which was substan-tiaT-y .'lie same as already published, but added that the anchor plates were designed o be strong enough to carry three times he weight of the bridge. A great deal of the,material sunk was recovered, and he expected very little would be lost. The niers were not damaged at all. It was estimated that to repair the bridge would cost a thousand pounds. It was clear with regard to the anchor plates, that the casting's were faulty, or there had been an error in the designs of the bridge which were prepared at the head office, ’.Tellington. There were no other bridges in the colony on the same model. The remainder of the afternoon the House was in committee on the Municipal Corporations Bill. A number of clauses were postponed. The committee got as far as clause 308, when the House rose at 5.30.