PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3961, 8 September 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

„..' (Pbe PHEsa Association.) Wellington, Yesterday. Mr Moss desired to know the order of business for the rest of tlie session, add- 4 ing that, in view of the unsatisfactery relations existing between the Chair and a number of members, they wished '• the Estimates to be passed at once, and the important bills left to be dealt with by nnother Parliament • ■* i ■ r Mr Hall said that the business would be arranged in order to push through with I all despatch the duty they owed - the country. He reprobated the imputation cast upon the conduct of the Speaker. The Post Office Bill passed through Committee, und was reported. TAKANAKI HAKBOUB. On the order for the second reading of Taranaki Harbour Board Commission Bill, Mr Kelly raised a number of objections to the bill, on points of order, all of which, were overruled. Mr Hall then moved the second reading of the bill, which he said was framed strictly in, accordance with the House. He proposed Mr E. C. Stevens and Capt. Russell asA two of the Commissioners. The third would be a professional gentler|an, and not yet decided upon, but \fhose name would be announced when the bill went into Committee on Friday. •liMr .Wakefield felt great repugnance to interfering with local bodies such as the JS£JP Plymouth Harbor Board. The o|lything to justify the House in doing ■la,was the fact of this board possessing ai exceptional endowment of 20 per cent, ofithe land fund; otherwise there would bl no right to do so. In committee he would endeavor to alter the bill so as to prevent the works being summarily stopped. Mr Hurst thought the bill would form a most dangerous precedent, as it proposed that the colony should take over the indebtedness of a local body which had borrowed money largely! and he would like to see (,be Commissioners'report made final as to proceeding with or stopping the work. Mr Stewart thought the Commission should have power to continue the work it the decision was in its favour.