LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4274, 12 September 1882, Page 2

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Wellington, Yesterday

Sir Geo. Whitmore moved that the Council insist on the amendments made in the Land Bill.—Carried.

Mr Whitaker moved the second reading of the Eangipo-Murimota Agreement Validation Bill.

Mr moved it be read this day six months, as it bad only been introduced a few hours.

After some discussion, the Council divided :—For second reading: Ayes, 16; noes, 11. The bill ordered to be committed.

The Council then agreed to insist on amendments in Special Powers and Contracts Bill by 15 to 12. Sir Geo. Whitmore announced that he regretted the conference which had met to discuss the amendment of the Land Bill could not agree. On his motion, it was arranged that a further conference meet to»tnorrow at 10 a.m. ' Mr Oliver brought up the report of the managers of the conference on Jhe amendment of the Council on the District Kailways Bill, the purport of which was that the Council had a precedent in the Ashburton water works in 1879, in insisting in its amendments. « The Council then went into Committee on the Cemeteries Bill, Education Districts, Rhodes Estate Duty, RangipoMurimoLu Agreement Validation, Tauranga, East Coast, and Hot Lakes District Railway Company, Registration of Births and Deaths Amendment, and Public Revenues Bills. They were now all reported; read a third time, and passed. The Council rose at 9 p.m.