This Mornings Sitting.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3318, 9 August 1879, Page 2

This Mornings Sitting.

The House metat II o'clock to-day.

/ :^..v- r -GQ^[ ( MfITXkk I j I^O^M.fI(MT - Mr Seymour brduglit up'the report of .the ..Standing., Orders Committee u« commending Supplies and Ways"'and Means lit for jjS^ppiifls iaimeaU^ ly ..a^er the uddress and reply were brought up and agreed to. The report wa»-*dopUd-Md the recommendations ordered to be embodied in'tHe;Sta6ai*ff Orders. APPROPRIATION BILL. "'i V The third xeadiDg of tut AppßQp|i%tton Bill' was carried, 'seTeral formal'amendments were made, and it was remitted to the Upper-Housed >^ ■ .''JO BAILWAY PAPBBS. The Minister of~Publio Works laid on .the table, a paper showing the railways 'opened nn<l; under cobttttti min^&« past year, with Hnessuryeyed, alio maps Ind reports undeHh'^yiwWy, Construe* tion Act, 1878; also papers re commence* ment of Thames^Waikato Railway. Ttay..we,re ordered to He on the table. MVRii^^l aJked wt(eW>MeJHfaimifl> sioner of Hail ways' circular Wo. so ipplies tp .alt! grades employed on New Zealand RntlWay,;' and' wh,t em^Wof 3|W Department were placed at a grievous disadvantagffic^MrW with other branches of the public service. "'"Mr MacQndrew 78 a {ather^uWtibn^y - matter was under revision, and an!*lmm* stances brought tinder notice. '' *

Mr Kelly asked whether Government will, giv« effect ta the;/recommendation of,» the Petitions Committee in the ease of Samnel Phillips who was found to Intve been wrongfully dismissed from the Public Service. ■"" -~rfW- -

T h^jMmiste^of-Laiadij said £c« oaM make himselt acquainted with the o|r> cumstances of ttie'eas^and'if necessary he wodfd &ive fa further Ifaquiry/into the matter. ~~—■

■ment will., take .into eonsraeraxwp the advisabil.fj of making V rot\iL'"L a residence for the ■ Gtoretaor at Christchurch. The Premier «»id"Mt'".:w¥s impossible at that' late period 6 ofc tSe Session to discuis' sjach a matter. ><n^>ml The Preraipr obtained leave to introduce bills entitlca,: the TMaori FrisoM^m epappwe^Bft theGorernment'SextoJl .the time for the. trial of the I prisoner^.a^^^PiMceTrMerj^Q^:,^W^sVCoS I^.4^^^ # , The House adjourned until 12.30. vation, and Maori. Prisoners Bills created a! sharp disoufuion, whio'.ii|j|tiU continu* ing.