LATEST PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3968, 16 September 1881, Page 2

LATEST PARLIAMENTARY.

[By Tjeleguai'h.] HOUSE OP EEPEESENTATIVES. - This Day's Sitt»#.Wellington, This day. The House met at 11 o'clock. The following bills were wad a second time:—Patents Acts Amendment, Sheep Act Amendment, and Port Chalmers Dock Trust. >■'^ } Hall moved the second reading of the Countie* Suspension. ': Ballance pointed out that the bill raised most important issues, and ought not to be put forward at this stage of the session. If operated on, it was designed to throw the whole system of Cuuuty' government into inextricable disorder. /

_ Hall said, that without prejudice to the bill, on its merits it was plainly a measure upon which a great deal pf discussion and consequent delay would ensue. Under these circumstances, he would postpone it so as to enable other business to be gone on with.

Grey hoped the measure would not be postponed. It was one urgently wanted for the North Island, and it was bri right that districts should have the~JWtocr to say, whether they be governed by 'Road Boards or County Councils. Wood pointed out that the necessity for the measure was very great; a number of petitions had been received from the districts in its favor. The motion for the second reading was put and carried. The Houee then went into committee on the following bills :—Pateut Act Amendment, Sheep Act Amendment, and Public Health, ■.- "■::; ■ ■■■• f LITBB. The Port Chalmers Dock Trust, the Employment of Females and other»' Bill, the Volunteer Bill, tie Special Power* and Contracts Bill vm© all oouiidered this

morning, and when the hour for adjournment arrived all of them, with the exception of the Special Powers and Contracts Bill, had been read a third time and passed.

The House rosa at 1.45 p.m