Parliamentary.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2107, 5 October 1875, Page 2

Parliamentary.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE EVENING SITTING.

WELLINGTON

This day,

The House tast night resumed in committee the Debtors and Creditors Bill, the principal amendment being the striking out of the clause relating to after acquired property.

Stamp Duties Bill.—Promissory note stamps were reduced to one-penny, and on charter party from 10s to Is.

The Fraudulent Debtors and Abolition for Debt Amendment Bills were passed.

Considerable debate took place on the Representation Bill. The second reading was not opposed, but a great many objections were taken respecting the want of a sound principle in the proposed arrangement of representation. Hawke's Bay and Timaru were considered unduly favored at the expense of Auckland, the Thames, and the West Coast, and hopes were expressed that the Bill would be amended in Committee so as to better equalise. representation and lessen existing anomalies.

Mr O'Connor dwelt at considerable length upon the feeble way in which the Government dealt with the question after what they had led the country to expect.

Mr O'Neill hoped that the Thames would be granted another member more than the Bill provided for.

The following members accepted the Bill only as an incomplete attempt to remedy .-existing inequalities of representation :—Messrs Cuthbertson, McGillivray, Harrison, Swanson, O'JNPeill, W. Kelly, Andrew, Reid, Mervyn, O'Connor.

The debate was adjourned pn *the motion of Mr Fitzherbert.

The report on the Ohinemuri Miners' Eight case was read. Its purport was that a number of Miners' Eights were fraudulently obtained by O'ffalloranand Brissenden, and that Brissenden had direct interest in the fraud.

The House adjourned afe 1.5 a.m