LATEST PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 163, 31 July 1886, Page 2

LATEST PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

GOLD REDUCTION BILL AGAIN THROWN OUT. Wellington, Last Night. The Legislative Council has thrown out Loans to Local Bodies Bill. The Cabinet has decided to set apart the amount struck out of the Loans schedule for works in the South Island. The bpeaker of tue Legislative Council has refused to allow the Gold Reduction Bill to be read a first time, on the ground that it did not differ sufficiently from the Bill already thrown out. When the Charitable Aid Bill was in Committee Whyte moved to have Piako separated from Thames, but the motion was lost by 34 to 33.

PIAKO COUNTY : — SEPARATI 0 N FRO M T HAME S *lIO!SPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID DISTRICTS LOST BY ONE VOTE. Wellington, Friday.

The House went into Commitee this afternoon on the schedule to the Hospital and Charitable Aids Act Amendment Bill. The separation o£ Nofth of Auckland and Waikato and Waipa from the Auckland district -was curried. Mr J. B. Whyte then moved the separation of the Piako County from the Thames district, and advocated it

strongly on the grounds of divcrsive interests, want of accessibility, disproportion of contributions, unfair representation, and various other grounds. Col. Fraser opposed strongly, pointing out that no hospital existed at Te Aroha, but agreeing that if one was established at Te Aroha he would agree to its being formed into a separate district. In this he was supported by the Premier, who was" in charge of the Bill. "Various'other members spoke for and against Mr Whyte's proposal, and, on going into a division, it was lost by 33 for and 34 against. Then Messrs Buchanan (Wairarapa South), Walker (Ashburton), and Steward (of Waimate), respectively proposed one similar amendment for their own districts, which, upon being put, was rejected.

FURTHER MOTION THAT THE couNTrns of piako and OHINEMURI BE FORMED SEPARATE DISTRICT ALSO LOST. Mr L. M. Grace then moved that the Counties of Piako aud Ohinemuri be formed into a separate district, giving as his reasons similar ones to those given by Mr Wbytc, add adding that he bad received a large number of letters and applications from persons in the above counties, as well as a strong request from the Chairman and Councillors of the Ohinemuri County that they ay ere desirous of having the above change made in the boundaries. He submitted that that body and the residents in the district were the most competent to judge as to what would be the most beneficial way of working the Act in their part of the country, and that he believed the same feeling for a change extended as far as the northern boundary of his electorate, viz., the Kaucranga river. This amendment was ruled out of order by the Chairman, on the grounds that tbe House had already refused to separate Piako from the Thames district. Mr Grace therefore moved that the I County of Ohinemuii be separated From the Thames district, but thia was, on going to a division, rejected by the House.

TIIE BILL TO BE RE.-&OM-MIOTED. Mr Whyte supported the member for Tamanga, and afterwards gave notice to re-commit the Bill, for the purpose of giving the House another opportunity of reconsidering the hardship under which the settlers suffered under the present arrangements.