Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4268, 5 September 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[By Telegraph.] : - (FBOM OITB OWN COSEESPONEENT.) ' ; WErirNGToN I,"Last night. Mr Bethgate has tabled- tbe following notice of motion for Thursday:—" (1) That all important Government Bills should be circulated by sending copies to the Chairmen of County Councils, Mayors ot Boroughs, and members of the Assembly, at least two months before the commencement of the session, as is usually done by the Imperial'Goverhment. (2) That the Estimates, be laid before the House on the first day of the session, according to the rule followed in the United States of America; France, Bel-

gium, Italy, and the other Continental nations possessing Constitutional Government.,.. (3) That the improper practice of Supplementary Estimates, under which large sums afe dealt with in a hurried manner, and, after many of the members hare left for their homes, be discontinued." The reason assigned for this motion is in order to ensure the proper and speedy despatch of business, and to " obviate the costly waste of time resulting from the delay of the Government in not bringing down their most important measure till Parliament has been more than three months in session.".

The following clause, called the MacKenzie clause was forced on the Government in the Land Bill, but has been excised by the Waste Land Committee of the Council:—No original holder, transferree, or other person occupying any pastoral lands, either by himself or jointly with any other person, under license or lease from the Crown, capable of carrying ia the whole twenty thousand sheep or more, shall be entitled to become the purchaser or transferee of an additional pastoral license or lease after the coming into operation of this Act, and should any original holder, transferee, or other person so occupying any pastoral lands, as aforesaid, become the purchaser of any run hereafter exposed at auction all payments of rent made in accordance with the conditions of sale shall be for« feited to the Crown, and any license or lease issued shall'be deemed to have been void and of no effect from the date of issue.

J. W. Thomson tabled this day the following notice of motion. relative to the Governorship of New Zealand:-—" That in the opinion of this House, the protracted absence of the Governor irom the colony is unconstitutional^ discourteous to the colony, and fraught with serious consequences to the mother country, to the colonies generally, and to this colony in particular; that the Secretary of State for the Colonies should either request the Governor to return immediately to the colony or should cancel his appointment; and that in future appointments the Secretary of State for the Coloniea should undertake to appoint a Governor who will not absent himself from the colony, especially when the Parliament is in session; and that a respectful address be presented to the officer administering the Government, requesting him to forward the above resolution to the Secretary of State for the Colonies."

The Public Petitions Committee report on the petition of A. Home and others re parrell, that they have no recommendation to ofler.