PARLIAMENTARY.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 67, 7 August 1878, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Friday, August 2. Government promised to furnish returns showing amounts paid since 1870 as compensation to owners of cattle killed by the railways of .the colony ; and also reports in the Canterbury Hallways named in the Land Edseivi ion Bill. Government informed the Council that Sir Sir John Goode’s report on the harbour works at Greymouth was not yet to hand.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Friday, August 2. At the request of Mr Johnston (Manawatu) a return was laid'on the table showing that Ministsre had drawn from Oct. 14, 1877, to July 31, 1873, for salaries, 7038/. 19s 9d; for house allowances, 295/. 18s 3d; for travelling expenses, 1357/. 10s Gd. Government, in reply to Mr Wakefield, said they did imt intend to bring forward any measure dealing with public domains and gardens, and that a bill was being prepared to enable reserves adjacent to railways to be sold. The Trade U mons Bill was passed through all its stages. A Bill to define the posi - tion of oil leers in the Civil Service removed from one department to another was read a second time, as also was a Bill to consolidate the law relating to fraudulent debtors. Mr Fitzroy (Selwyn) asked for returns showing the total cost of the Government steamer Hinemoa, and the' names of those other than the Governer and staff and Ministers who have travelled in the Hinemoa without paying for their passages Returns promised on condition that the returns be extended to since 1870, so as to include the Luna.

The Special correspondent of the Tress* telegraphs to that paper abstracts of the new Electoral Bi 1 !, and the Bribery Bill. The following clauses of the Electoral Bill are of especial interest : Clause 16. Every male person of the ao-e of twenty-one, not legal!} 7 incapacitated and being a natural bom or naturalised subject of Her Majesty, shall, subject to the provisions of the ct, be qualified to vote at an election in the district in which his qualifi-ations are situate . (a) If he is seized of a freehold estate of the clear value of £25 per annum, and has been seized of such estate for six months previous' to the date of his claim to vote ; or (b) If be is a householder within the e.cctoral district for which he claims to vote, and occupies a tenement of the value of £lO per annum, and has res ded therein six montns previous to the date of his claim to

vote ; Or (c) if he has resided for two year.-, in the county, and for six months in an electora 1 district, and ts possessed of no other qualification e. - titling him to vote under this Act, such qualification to be termed r c sid ell tal qu ali li cat ion, Clause 17. Persons on a ratepayers’ list shall be qualified to vote at elections. Clause 20. No trustee or mortgagee shall be deemed to be qualified as a freeholder.

Clause 21. Persons possessing more than one qualification to vote are only entitled to one vote.

Clause 52, Every duly qualified and registered elector shall be qualified for election as a member of the House of Representatives for any electoral district. Clause 27. No person is entitled to vote unless lie has registered a form of claim as in the second schedule. Clause 31. Every claim is to be attested before a Justice of the Peace.

The Bribery Bill contains clauses against the giving or taking a bribe direct ; or accepting refreshments of any kind at elections ; the use of cockades, ribbons, ; the providing conveyances ; the employment of bands of music ; the use of threats, and the sittings of committees in public houses.