PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 159, 9 July 1903, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. i Wmdnmdat, July 8. | The Council met at 2.80 p.m. A bal'ot was taken in earner* for tb* cleotioo of Chii'man of Committee*! the Hon. J. Rigg being elected. lion. J. M. iVomey resumed the de* btte oa the Aidresi-inR-ply, He „ favoured a State Biuk with branches in London to take depseits, which woul i enable loaoe to be raieed at 8 per can\ He contended the oolonios should have p of. rential trade with Britain against 'eloigners. Hon. 11. K. Taiaroa endorsed the finding of the Privy Council in the P»rirua case, He would welosme Mihut* to the Council, bus deprecated cal ing him Kiog, as he waa only chief of his own tribe.

Hon. J. Holmes thought the iiieti Board should bs wound up. The debate wm adjonined, and the Council rose at 4.30. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wkdkmdat, Julf 7. The House net at 2.80. Mr Mill *r gave notioe to move for • ! r< tlirn g yißg details of the traffic etc., by the Sm F.ancieco mail eervioe. FIRST BIADIKOS. The f. llowing Bilk «ere introduced and read a first time Tramwtys Dis'rict Act ment (Wi'tj), Fenoing Amendment (Leth bridge), Cbristehurch Property Reserve (Taylor), Proper* tional R< presentation and Eff ctive Voting (Fowld ), and Barmaids Abolition (Eli).

ADSBKW-lir-BCPLr. Mr Moca resumed (ha debate on the Address-in-Keply, Be urged that amongst the responsibilities the Oormi* ment had assumed was that of remodelling the system of administering justice in the Ocok Islands.

Mr Sidt-y saii we ought to take the initiative and let the Mother Country know we were ready to enter into aa agreement for preferential trade, He considered perpetual lease the best form of tenure on which to dispose of Grown lands, but thought it was better the Und ahou'd be ooeupied utdtr a freehold tenure than not oocupi'd at alt. tie urgtd that Dental Colleges should be established in the oolony with the power to issue diplomas, Mr Mander urged the oxteusion of the railway north of Auokhnd, and complained that the settlers there had not been fairly treated by the Govern* menC | The House rose at 5.30.

Evinisg Sitting. The House resumed at 7.30. Mr Baume expressed his hearty approval of any scheme of preferential trade by whioh the glory of the Empire should be msintaintd. He elamed that education from a primary school ■ o a secondary and from thenoe to the university sbouH be free to everyone who could piss the necersary ex ami* nations. He advooited the establishment of training schools far teachers, the compulsory inspaotion of all sohoo's, whether public or private, and the centralisation of the work of inspestioß under one head in Wellington, He gave the Government eredit tor the optional tenures of land, and held that the cry of l .aseholders to oonvert their holdings into freeholds should be resisted .

Mr Thos. Mackenzie held that reaidenta of towns were not bearing their fair share of taxation aa compared with country seM lei i. He favoured the freeho'd, but believed in ite being limited. He declared that cooperative works were costing too muob. Reform in the Oivil Service was required, Mr Buddo objected to the freehold. He urge t greater railway and poatal facilities for country settlers, and that libra lies should be established in country districts. .

Mr E. 0. Allen was quite satisfied the majority of the House was determined not to give up (he freehold of -ur land. R«g trdiog preferential trad* he though l ; that while we osnld sot grants many concessions to thi Mother Country, we o mid wi>h advantage raise the tariff on foreign goods. The debate adjourned, and the Houaa rose at 11.45.