LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3013, 11 October 1878, Page 1

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

WELLINGTON.

ThursdayJ DECEASED WIFE'S SISTEB BILL. I The Council rejected the Deceasl Wife's Sister Bill by 18 to 9. | THE HABBOE BILL. v ',!

The Harbor Bill was read a third tin* THE ELECTOBAL'BILL., The Hon. G. R. Johnstone presented petition from Hawke's Bay, which sta that the Electoral Bill at present woj virtually disfranchise the' European \ habitants of that district. . \ LOCAL BILIB COMMITTEE. \ The report of the Local Bills Comraitte. on the Invercargill Waterworks, Oamari Mechanics Institute, and Taranaki County Council Loan Bills, was brought' up, aad\ the second reading of these measures fixed \ for the next day. ' \ THE SPEAKEB's LEAVE. An extension of the leare of absence of the Speaker for a fortnight was granted. TIMABU GeVEBNKENT. BUILDING BITS. Timaru Telegraph and Post Office Site Bill was read a second time, and the Council then went into Committee and the last mentioned bill passed through without amendment. . '.'' MUNICIPAL COBPOSATIONB BILL. On the new. clause in the Municipal Corporations Bill,' fixing the width of private streets at not less than forty feet, , there was a long discussion, and the clause was passed as printed. Several new clauses were added on the motion of Col. Whitmore, and the bill was reported. MILITARY (HANTS BILL. The Ormond Military Grants Bill was in committee and under consideration at the adjournment.