PARLIAMENTARY.
Legislative Council.
[Own Correspondent.] Wellington, October 16, Third Headings, In the Council yesterday The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Bill was read a third time and passed.
Bill Thrown Out. The Gold Duty Abolition Bill was thrown out by 14 to 13.
House of Representatives. Notices. In the House yesterday, Sir George Grey gave notice that he would introduce a Bill to amend the Printer’s and Newspapers Registration Act. Beplies to Questions. Replying to questions Government stated that £250 would be placed on the Supplementary Estimates for the volunteer prize shooting meeting, but Government would not arrange that one half the annual vote be allocated to the volunteers in each Island, That policeman McGuire, of Gisborne, had been dismissed for going about the country witnessing signatures to Maori deeds and taking money therefor. So far as Government was aware no reason existed for reconsidering that step. Government would, as far as possible, give effect to the recommendations of the Gaols Committee, re periodical removal of policemen. First Readings. The Destitute Persons Act Amendment Bill was read a first time. Committee. On the motion for going into Committee on the East and West Coasts Middle Island and Nelson Railway Bill Mr. Rolleston charged Sir Julius Vogel with a disposition to resume the spirit of public works gambling similar to that of 1870, from which, to a great extent, the colony latterly had been relieved. Sir George Grey objected to giving a private company such a vast extent of land for constructing a railway. When the line was constructed the value of the land would increase to double, and no one could tell the value of minerals till the forests had been cleared off. The whole thing, to his mind, was stock jobbing from end to end, and this was what was called financing. The measure should be postponed till next session, ard by that time the people of the Colony would have time to express a verdict upon it. He would use all available means to defeat the • Bill.
Mr. W. F. Buckland thought it would have been better to go in for large borrowing, than have schemes of the kind.
After further debate several clau cs were passed.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 262, 16 October 1884, Page 2
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368PARLIAMENTARY. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 262, 16 October 1884, Page 2
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