PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 993, 19 August 1882, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday’s Sitting. The Jastices of the Peace Bill was recommitted, in order to' strike out the clause enabling J,P.'*s to hear indecent cases in private. The whole evening was taken up with further consideration in Committee of the New Zealand Loan of £3,000,000. The proposal is to raise only £1,000,000 next year, and Mr Turnbull moved that that sum be reduced to £J50,0 )0, but was beaten on a division of 46 to 16. Mr Shrimski moved as a new. clause —“ That when any railway er portion of a railway made under the provisions of this Act shall be open for traffic, if the net earnings from- such railway or portion of a railway, after deducting working expenses and all costs of repairs of permanent way, rolling stock and plant, be not sufficient to pay the intereat upon the money expended in making such portion of railway, then the Governor-in Council ihall raise an amount sufficient to pay such interest by imposing and levying a tax in such manner and .at such differential rates as the Governor-in-Council shall deem fit, upon all lands within 15 miles from either side of such railway.” A long discussion took place on the subject. The Government were opposed to it, but the majority of the speakers favored it, and it was ultimately decided to report progress so as to give time to consider it. Thursday’s Sitting. The only piece of excitement in the Douse on Thursday night arose out of the motion for placing Colonel Trimble in the chair as Chairman of Committees. Colonel Trimble bad been Chairman on previous occasions, and

rendered himself so obnoxious to members that there were a great many vrho stated that he was unfit to occupy the position, but after an unseemly discussion which lasted for several hours, he was voted to the chair. The Coroners Act Amendment Bill was then considered in Committee. On the motien of Mr Dick a clause was inserted to the effect that six persons, of whom five would agree, would be aufficieht to constitute a jury in a Coroner’s court. The Bill wa« then read a third time. The balance ot the evening was spent in diesussing Sir Georga Grey’s Law Practitioner’s Bill.