GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1655, 3 November 1887, Page 2

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

The Council met at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, and adjourned again after passing a resolution relative to laying on the table the evidence in the rehearing of Owhaoko and Kaimanawa land, as to the withdrawal of the hearing, and the judgment of the Court in the case.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATITE3.

The House met at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday. A large number of petitions were presented praying for the junction of the Auckland Trunk line with the Government line.

Replying to questions it was stated that compassionate allowances were granted to railway employees incapacitated by illness; that if it was found legislation was necessary for stopping the spread of the Californian thistle it would be attended to; that firewood rates for long distances were so excessively low at present that the Government could not see their way to reduce them further; that the whole question of registration of electors would he considered this session; that some men were under notice of dismissal from the Hillside railway workshops because there was no work for them at present,

Two Public Petitions Committees were appointed. Mr Tawhanga moved for a return giving the names of members of the House pecuniarily interested in Native lands.—The discussion was adjourned for nine days. At 430 p.m. the House adjourned till 7.30, when Major Atkinson delivered the Financial Statement in Committee, which occupied an hour and a half.