PARLIAMENTARY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 232, 10 September 1884, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

(Per Press Association.) House cf Representatives. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. Notices of Motion. The House met at 2.80. Sir George Grey gave notice that he would move in the direction of getting a sum of money placed on the estimates for supplying the people, through the press, with a telegraphic nummary of the events of the world. Mr. Fitzherbert. gave notice that he would ask if Government would he prepared to supply naval volunteers with cutlasses. Replies to Questions. Replying to questions put,

It was stated that surveys had been completed and instructions given to issue Crown Grants in accordance with the Middle Island Half-caste Grants Act. The intention of Government re the extension of the Waikato-Te Aroha line would be made known when the Public Works Statement came down. Meantime the bridge at Te Aroha would be utilized for foot traffic. Telegraph communication would be extended to Danevirke on the Napier-Woodville line of railway. Government was in communication with the District Judge as to the propriety of establishing periodical sittings of the District Court at Waimate. Authority would be asked for setting aside blocks of land for securing to the Waimate District half-castes, the area of land contemplated by the Half-castes Lands Act, and these blocks would be laid off in sections of the requisite size. A foot-bridge would be erected over the branch line at Studholme junction. Government had no objection to lay before Parliament plans and estimates of detailed surveys recently made of the Canterbury and West Coast Railway. Provincial hospitals would be made in accordance with existing arrangements. A telephone line would be established between Duntroon and Kurow. No step Was contemplated in the direction of amending the Regulation of Elections Act, 1879. There was no intention at present of erecting a new post and telegraph office at Greymouth. Replying to a question put, Mr. Stout said that £75,000 had been advanced by the late Government out of the insurance fund to the Waimea Plains railway. In reply to a question as to the authority for the advance of that sum, Major Atkinson said that Parliament authorised an advance of £40,000, and the balance had been given to the Co. by way, not of advance, but investment. New Bills. The following Bills were introduced aud read a first time. To abolish the postage rate on newspapers printed within the colony. (Grey). Wellington Harbor Board Loans Consolidation and Empowering. (Johnston). Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881, Amendment, (Fitzherbert.) Going into Committee. On the motion for going into Committee on the Married Womens’ Property Bill, Mr. Wakefield objected to the measure as revolutionary and uncalled for, and moved as an amendment that it be committed that day six months. Mr. Stout, in reply, denied that it was a measure of a revolutionary tendency, contending that it simply proposed to do what the majority of parents did in making their wills, which provided that their daughters fortunes should be exempted from the control of their husbands. The motion for going into Committee was carried. On taking the Chair, Mr. Hamlin thanked them for his re-elec-tion, and promised strict impartiality in the discharge of his duties. The Bill was partly considered in Committee. The House rose at 5.30 to 7.30. EVENING SITTING. In the House last night the Married Women’s Property Protection Bill was passed through Committe and reported with several unimportant amendments. After disposing of several unimportant notices of motion, the House adjourned at 11.40 p.m.