LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3431, 20 December 1879, Page 2

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Wellington, Last night,

The Council met at 11 o'clock, when Mr Whitaker said that as to lines which had then been struck off during the previous night, the Council was placing the Government in a difficulty, as some of the lines; were authorised by the Railways Construction Act of last year. He proposed . now to so far meet the views of the Council, as to frame a schedule that; the application had been confined*to contracts already accepted. He would, however, agree to the itemEast and West Coast from main line to a junction with lino from Nelson to Greymouth or Hokitika, being struck out, as it was a new line. A short discussion followed, and the Bill was recommitted, and clause 21 re the exchange of land in Gamaru with. Messrs Lees and Moore was struck out. In the first schedule the following alterations were made :—Authorised Railway line from Waikato to Taranaki, struck,out. Nelson tp r Greymouth, sections Nelson to Eoundhill and Grey mouth to Nelson Creek with harbor works at Greymouth was inserted. THE GREAT TBtJNK LINE BTBIJCK OUT. In addition to lines already specified the Council struck out the line Waikato to New Plymouth from the list of authorised railways in the schedule of the Public Works Bill.