LAST NIGHT'S SITTING.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2055, 5 August 1875, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S SITTING.

: at^billis;: iatid/^ Btimßer ©f them was■"p6stp'"one"dHhrdi[rgh':j having been pripled earlier. I The si jcond;reading of. Pftns of Towns Rsgulation Bill, moved by' Mr O'Neill, crjealed::,consideraible *tipbMe°4y/rhe hon. Jgentie^a^-pqinted, ou^ length the many Benefits alike of a pecuniary and sanitary character such measures would confer upon the country, and concluded by saying the time was nob far distant when the country would find to its cost the error made in not having passed such a; bill sooner. As railways extended North and Souths towns would spring into existence- along every line, and without some measure to regulate the building and laying out of towns, the Government would one day find that it would have to expend as much money in rectifying past errors in laying out towns, as had been spent upon the railways themselves. The hon. member referred to the widening of-Princes-street (Duriedin) as an illustration of what would be constantly taking place. , Several members spoke to the bill, but while agreeing entirely with its principle, and supporting; the second reading, they said it was a very imperfect measure; and would require a great deal of amendment. :

The Minister of Public Works did not wish to oppose ?the second :reading, as he agreed in ; a ; great; measure//with the principle of the bill, but he could assure the hon. member who introduced the bill that in its present form it was not worth the paper it was -printed on ; it was so unworkable and impracficable in many of its provisions. He trusted the bill would not, at present be pressed beyond the second -reading. " Mr O'Neill expressed his willingness to avail himself of the assistance of/hon. members, to amend the bill, and.put -it into a 1 wprkablo'shsipe while *• in cpmmittee. "■'.■ "''

The bill was then;read a second time. The Hpuse adjourned at 10. p.m.