PARLIAMENTARY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 94, 8 October 1873, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. THE GOVERNOR’S SPEECH. September 30. The following Hawke’s Bay and East Coast items, taken from the supplementary estimates, will interest our readers :— One District Judge, £7OO. Post-office Clerk, Napier, additional £25. Inland mail service, £825. Collector of Customs, Turanga, additional £9O. Steam service on the East Coast, £1,500. Public buildings for judical purposes, Napier, £3OOO. Customs, Tauranga, £250. The Native Minister announced in the House, that the Maori King, after so many years of isolation, came in and spent last night at Alexandra. He went back to Kuiti with the intention of proceeding to Kawhia, to get up a great feast to which Europeans would be invited. (Loud applause ). In reply to Mr. Sheehan, Mr. M'Lean said that the Government intended to pardon Hone Weki, convicted some years since of manslaughter. October 2. The Education Bill, with the Council’s amendments, has been considered. Ultimately Mr. Vogel moved that the Bill be discharged, which was done. October 3. The Governor, in his speech, said that though the session had been a short one, it had been more than ordinarily important. Arrangements had been made for the connection of New Zealand with Australia by means of a telegraph cable. The provisions made for the purchase of a landed estate for the North Island were calculated to advance New Zealand to the position of a firstclass colony. The Native Lands Act would meet a great want. It was gratifying that by the Life Assurance Act the institution would command public confidence. It was satisfactory that the people of Westland, by the Act creating that part of the colony into a province, would have the ordinary form of Government ruling throughout New Zealand. He acknowledged the efficient provision madafor the public service, and returned thanks for the provision made for immigration and for immigrants by virtue of the Immigrants Lands Act. He was glad Mr. Russell’s mission to the United States had secured the re-establish-ment of the San Francisco mail service. He regretted the Civil Service Act had not been passed, He anticipated favorable results from the tariff. The further provisions made for the construction of trunk lines of railway furnished evidence. of a determination to carry out the public works policy, as by the construction of cheap railways settlement would be stimulated.

COLONIAL ITEMS. (from the anglo-austbalian press company.) Wellington, Sept. 30. Mr. M'Gillivray, M.H.R. (member for Riverton), delivered a lecture last evening, in the Presbyterian Church, on “ Science and Religion.” Immediately on leaving the church, he was served with a summons for indecency to girls on the Terrace. October 3. Messrs. Sheehan and Takamoana gave a dinner last night to thirty influential native chiefs from various parts of the colony. There were also present several members of Parliament, and other gentlemen. Tauranga, October 2. Mr. Dargaville has addressed the electors— European and native—in Fraser’s Hall. He sets himself up as model of perfection, denounces provincial institutions, and denounces the selling of land by natives as disastrous to their welfare and to civilization. Mr. Williamson’s friends predominated. They are active, zealous, and determined on success. Auckland, October 2. Mr. Morgan, at whose house King Tawhiao stopped at Alexandra, telegraphs to the New Zealand Herald as follows :— “ Tawhiao has broken the ice. He came down and had tea with me last night. He has just left for Kaipeki, where his followers are staying. I am not permitted to state what he said to me, except that he said, ‘ All is well. I come in peace, and shall now return to my people, and, may be, in one year, perhaps two years, I shall have settled down quietly in Waikato. To-morrow you can tell the pakehas that I have been in their midst, and have spent three pleasant hours without their knowledge.’ ” Dunedin, October 2. The National Insurance Company commenced business yesterday.