PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3964, 12 September 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

(Per Press Association.)

This Say's Sitting.

Wellington, This day. The House met at 11 am. and went into Committee on the Land Claims Act Settlement Repeal Bill, which passed without amendment on the motion for its third reading. Taiaroa objected on tho ground that the Bill had not be?n translated into the native tongue. On a motion for adjournment till tomorrow on the motion for going into committee on the Thermal Spring District Bill, Andrews admitted the measure was a useful one, but pointed out clauses he thought were likely to clash, with the object aimed at. In committee he would more in the direction of pi-eventing these springs from becoming the property of anyone, contending as he did that they aUouUl continue the property of the

Crown. To meet the views expressed by the Maori members he would be agreeable that the provision of the Act as it stood should in the first instance, be confined to Tauranga and East Taupo. He agreed in the opinion expressed that this was a great national undertaking, and would be the means of inducing a large tourist population to visit New Zealand. The motion for leaving the Chair was put and carried. Clauses 1 and 2 passed, after which progress was reported and the House adjourned at 1.15.