GENERAL ASSEMBELY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1544, 12 August 1886, Page 1

GENE RAL ASSEMBELY.

•LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ; j

Id the Legislative Council on MofuLy,

Sir Frederick Whitaker brought up ithe report of the Select Committee relative to the New Zealand Loan Bill, and moved its adoption.—The report was* ordered to be printed, and the Bill committed for the same sitting. The Government Loans to Local Bodies Bill was rOad a The amendments of the House in the. Sheep Act Amendment Bill were agreed to. The Mining Bill was further considered in Committee and reported with amendments.

The report of the Commiltee on the New Zealand Loan Bill set forth that the only lines of .railway- unauthorised in the schedule to .the- Bill were the Helensville (four miles of which extension had been, however, authorised) .and the Oainaru breakwater line junction. The Committee was to .determine .whether the law had been complied with, which was a function entirely apart froth the.consideration of a Money and the* Council would pot be doing its duty •by 5 voting; money for work opt properly,authorised. , ; , ( ' The Deeds .and Instruments Registrar tion Bill was committed; and progress reported. The Public Bodies Leaseholds Bill and the Beer Duty Bill were road a third time and passed. Tha Government Insurance, Charitable Institutions, and Local Bodies Finance Bills were read a first time.

The Otago Harbor Board Leasing Bill was further considered in Committee, and reported with amendments.

The Loan Bill was considered in Committee and reported with amendments.

Verbal amendments were made in the Local Miners-Bill; and the Council adjourned. OnTnesday, The Mining Bill was read a third time and passed.; ; A message was .received from the House informing the Council that the House agreed with the Council’s amendments in' the Civil Service Reform Bill.

The Registrar of Deeds and Instruments Bill the Government Life Insurance Bill and the LocalJßodies Finance Powers Bill were passed through the remaining stages and were read a third time and passed. The Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill was read a second time and committed.

Some unimportant verbal amendments were made in the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Bill, the Bill was reported with amendments, read a third time, and passed. The Otago Harbor Board Leasing Bill was recommitted, reported with amendments, read a third time and passed. The third reading of the New Zealand Loan Bill wrs agreed to after a sharp debate. The Council adjouraed at 9.15 p.m. HOUSE OP BBPRBBENTATIYB3. In the Honse on Monday, The Local Bodies Finance and Powers Bill was read a third time and passed. The Premier said he did not quite agree with the, amendment made by . the Legislative Council in the Civil Service Reform Bill ss to the nomination ,of cadets, but rather than the Bill be lost he would, consent to it.—Major Atkinson asked whether the Premier still: hoped, to effect the saving he bad promised of £20,000 or £30,000 by this Bill. -The Premier said the clause by which he; had hoped to effect that saving had been struck out by the House.—The amendments were agreed to on the voices.

Mr Larnach brought up the report of the P.iv.lege Committee in the rejection of the Gold Duty Export Abolition Bill by the Council, recommending that ill financial measures be joined in one 8.11. —The report was ordered to beoonsideied on Wednesday next.

The Hospital! and Charitable In f tftu lions Bill was recommitted fort (ho consideration of the clause proposed by 1; the Premier, who moved an amendment making subsidies, on contributions from local authorities pound for pound.—l ho motion ,was agreed, to, the BiH‘ wiß reported with amendments, read a '(bird time and pitssed.

The Government Life Insuranceifßill was read, a'third time and passed, fi; s Sir Julius, Vogel moved tbesscond reading, of the Stamp Act Amendment Bill.—A new clause relative to doty on native land was inserted and the Bill re* .ported.

The Bail ways Authorisation Bill was read a first,tiaie. ■' !

The report - of the Committee on tha reasons for disagreeing with the’amend* In§htii^{ r tbVCph - ()'eil In the Harbors Act Amendment Bill was read. In this course of the discussion-it came out that it was proposed i to allow the Midland Railway Company to import material on the asms fobting: as,Government rail way material. —After argument thetdauee referring to this was struck out and the report agreed to.

The House appointed'a Committee to draw up reasons for disagreeinjjfu with Home of tbe Council's amendment*.; in. the Counties and Municipal Corporations Bills. - v • ■ " “ -

Tbe Premier moved the second'reading of the\ Representation Bill. He said the ■principle of dealing with it by a Board was not nery, and had; been ! befo/e the House ; i ( n. 1858, 1877,; and; 1§79, The main features of the Bill were tbe population basis; and the aftpbi&tmeiii; a Board. He dealt the ciausea of the, .Bill ,embracing these proposals. The Board was to contain five members, consisting of the Controller-Oem'eral, Surveyor-Ceieral and three nominated member's. Another tbe amalgamation of the city,electorates,,} He thought this plan, might with advantage he applied to cbuhfry elßctbralea f is Minorities also would haws betterehanoe of being represented?in amalgamated than single electorates. He asked the House with as little debate as possible to affirm the principle of the■ Billy and read it a second time. He pledged himself that if it were passed there should be ! a session as early as possible next year ; in fact, as soon as the finances *-could be got ready. As to the number of members for the colony, that h«d; been left; blank, as the Cabinet were not unanimous on the subject, . Personally, he should not object to see the.presentjMtahslightly reduced, but it might inflict an injustice on those districts which.were crushed out..

MaTor'Atkhisbn supported the second reading. He was in favor of women as well as men voting, but reccgniped they were not advanced, enough for that. TheJidebnte was continued by. Messrs Peacock, Moss, Mackenzie, Wakefield, Scobie Muckenzie, Levesttira,- 'Russell, Thompson, Taylor, Guinness, Saddon, Kerr, fjore, Buckland, Hursthousejßoos, Dr Newman, and Colonel Trimble. '

At 1.20 a.m. the Government agreed • o the adiournmeotof the debated and the House rose. ;, . , >:-;!!■;

, The House met at 2.30 p.m. 'pa .Tuesday. . "

Replying to questions, it 1 was stated t That no application had been 1 made to Government Tor the cost of ,the defence of Th Whiti, and that the oatjves,„op the West Coast had sufficient money: to defray the cost of the trial, and the Government did not intend paying it; that Government f thought it hardly likely that Mr Gladstone would visit Rew Zealand, but that if he did come every effort wbuld be made by Government to make his Visit as agreeable as possjble ; that the charge for fruit'carriage was Reduced some time back, and the tariff now met the reasonable demands of fruit-growers. Sir George Grey deemed the -re|>ly. to a question regarding the Auckland- unemployed—to the effect that Government were taking steps in the. matter—unsatisfactory, and moved the adjournment of the House, and the debate, which ensued lasted till the 5.30 p.m. adjournment, On resuming at 7.30 p.m. the Act Amendment Bill was recommitted, and a mistake in last year’s Act by which 7s 6d was charged for the transfer: of '/mining property instead of Is, was rectified.--The Bill was read a third time and passed; The premier moved - the. second reading of the Settled Land Bill.-—Agreed to.j THa Premier, moved the second reading of the Property; .AssessmentAmepdment Bill, providing that .lauded,endowments of churches should, be * subjected to the t«x.—The,Rill was. rpad. a Hcco.ndjtime, On the motion "for theeomrottal 9| the Special Powers aqd^ntfa^/8i11j,'.,’... Mr Bryce said there were seypraL tbioga in the Bill which ought to, ( haye.fo|rmedi separate measures. , The,,first schedule alone really contained some 20 Billia., The Speaker said it.,-was r peculiar . legislation, but there were |mnny M precedents for it. It was iikely to canse confusion as to the exact state,,of th»;l*w. After a long discussion Mrßallancq replied that if there was no such Bill, ,much of the business of the country* be eft undone. It had been !the Special, Powers and Contracts embodied the work of provincial legislation. Every clause of the present.Bill had been carefully inquired into by the Waste Lands Committee. , The House .went into Committee on the Bill, when a Tew, amendments were made. ./ - : f.