PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3900, 29 June 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

(Pee Pbess Association.)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Afternoon Sitting.

Wellington, Tuesday. The House met at 2.30 to day. Mr Weston, member for Grey Valley, was introduced by Messrs Bead and Reeves, and took his seat.

Mr Wright gave notice to more for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the financial position of New Plymouth Harbor Board and its relations to the public creditor. Mr Ballance gave notice that he would ask Government if it was intended to introduce any measure to amend the Dog Registration Act in the direction of a reduction of the tax. BEPLIES TO QUESTIONS. The Imperial authorities had been appealed to with a view of getting provision made for united action on the part of the Australian Colonies in bringing to justice men who desert their wives and families.

The names of the telegraph operators who struck work in New Zealand had been sent to the Australian Colonies with the sanction of the Minister of the day. They were only ringleaders in the strike, and their conduct had been calculated to endanger the public safety, as well as inconvenience to business, inasmuch that the safety of the railway system depended upon the efficient working of the Telegraph Department.

Government had not come to any final decision respecting the amendment of the law dealing with Juvenile offenders.

No correspondence had taken place with the Home authorities regarding the parcel post system. The Railway Department has the question' of parcels delivery under consideration but they hud arrived at no decision on the point. REGULATION OF ELECTIONS. Mr Johnstone moved the second reading of the Regulation of Elections Bill, and it was similar to bills already twice before the House, and embodied amendments made by the House in them. Its leading principle were the extension of the hours of polling to eight p.m., the substitution of written for personal nomination, and the providing for representation so that where three members were to be elected, no elector should vote for more than two. Considerable debate ensued, and was interrupted by the dinner adjournmeet.