PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1884, 6 August 1874, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.) LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Wellington, Wednesday, 7 p.m. OPINIONS ON THE NATIVE LANDS ACT. The Son. Mr Mantell moved that :opies of all communications received by ;he Government from the Chief and other l"udges of .Native Lands Courts expressng favourable opinions upon the provilions and operations of the Native Lands let, 1873, be laid on the table.—Carried. BEAL ESTATE DESCENT BILL. The Hon. Mr Waterhouse moved that he Heal Estate Descent Bill be remitted ;o a committee of the whole Council on [hursday.—Carried. OYSTER JfISHEBIHS BILL. The Hon. Dr. "Pollen moved for leave jring in a Bill to Amend the Oyster Fisheries, Act, 1866.—Carried. SECOND EEADIN&3. The second readings of the following sills were carried: -Goldfields Act, 1866, imemdment Bill; Provincial Fencing uaws Empowering Bill; and Presby ;erian Church Otago Land Act Amendment Bill. HOUSE OP KEPBESENTATIVES. Wellington, Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDUCATION OF MAORI CHILDEEN. Mr P. Kelly asked whether the Government intended to educate the sons of native chiefs, as indicated by his Excellency in an address at the Auckland Grammar School. Mr D. McLean said the Government intended to take every means for the education of the whole native race. When his Excellency made the remark he was unaware that there was an excellent boarding school in Auckland, where the sons of chiefs were educated. CIVIL BESVICE DESIGNATIONS. Mr Murray moved for a return of civil service officers who have resigned during the past year.—Agreed to. THE HANAWATU CLAIMS. Mr Fitzherberfc moved that the House consider the report of the Speaker on the Manawatu and ' Eangitikei claim, with a view of carrying out the recommendation of the Commissioner, and placing a sum upon the supplementary estimates to meet what must be considered an equitable claim. Ordered to be considered on Tuesday, BAILWAY DEBENTUBES. Mr Murray moved for a return of the number and amount of Port Chalmers railway debentures taken over by the colony, together with the yearly charge for interest on those outstanding. Agreed to. LOANS. Mr T. B. Gillies moved for a return showing the respective amounts of all loans authorised by the Legislature, and the respective amounts raised under them. Agreed to. NATIVE LANDS ACT. The adjourned debate regarding the working of the Native Lands Act, 1873 was resumed. Mr T. B. Gillies said he had seen the proposed amending Act, but could see that it failed to remedy the defects complained of in the old Act. They could not possibly be expected to frame a suitable Act without availing themselves of all the information obtainable, and above all of the valuable suggestions of Judges who knew most about the matter. Messrs Kolleston and J. Williamson concurred in the views of the preceding member. Mr McLean said a great deal of misapprehension existed regarding the Act. It had not been shown to be unworkable, and had never, in fact, been tried. The only real hostility to the Act proceeded from the interest of Europeans; but he had no objection to lay before the committee all tne papers and information the Government possessed. FOBESTS BILL. MrEoid opposed the Bill. He admitted that the measure had a good object in viow, and was much required: the Premier deserved the thanks of the country for opening the subject; but he thought the machinery having been laid, it should be left to the provinces to carry out the work. The Premier, in reply, made a forciblt speech in defence of the bill. was

particularly severe upon Messrs Fitzherbert and Bunny, who practised the " ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain," Fitzherbert being like that ravenous and ferocious tree, the blue-gum, which would not allow any other tree or shrub to live alongside of it. lie was the blue-gum of New Zealand. He pointed out that the colony in the last few years had spent three and a half millions of colonial money in the North Island, while the money raised by the provinces in that Island only amounted, in the same time, to less than half a million, and in consequence of that were obliged to lend hundreds of thousands to the Middle Island on works which should be defrayed out of provincial funds. The only remedy for this was to sweep the ISorth Island Provinces I away altogether. He agreed to take out I clauses regarding forest land, and insert one inviting provinces to voluntarily hand over to the colony portions of land for forest reserves. Bead a second time and committed for Friday, IN aval Training Schools Bill read a second time. BREACH OF PEIVILEGE. In both Houses to-day select committees were appointed to inquire into a breach of privilege committed by the Evening Tribune in printing an Auckland telegram purporting to give the evidence given by Judge Ward before the WardChapman Committee. Mr Tribe asked why not proceed against the paper in which the telegram first appeared. The Speaker said it was immaterial which paper it appeared in first; they proceeded against that in which the House first saw it.