Tuesday, 25th May.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 68, 29 May 1869, Page 3

Tuesday, 25th May.

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Mr. BROWN presented a petition from persons residing at Mount Benger and Blacks, in reference to the setting apart of certain blocks of land for settlement. He also moved that the matter

should be referred for consideration to a Select Committee. After a brief discus•aion, Mr. MOUAT proposed that the motion should be amended so as to permit of a petition which he had presented from certain residents of Tuapeka being reierred to the Committee simultaneously -with that presented by Mr. Brown. The motion was amended aa proposed, And a Committee, consisting of the following gentlemen, was elected by ballot : — Messrs. Bell, Haughton, Haggitt, Burns, Hughes, and Tayler. REPRESENTATION BILL.

Mr. GILLIES brought up the report of the Select Committee, which recommended that an attempt should be made to have the General and Provincial Go-

vernment Electoral districts coincident.' 'The following distribution of seats was recommended : — Dunedin, 4 members ; Tuapeka, 2; Oamaru, 2; Taieri, 2; Tokomairiro, 2 ; Olutha, 2 ; Dunstan, 2 ; Mount Ida, 2 ; Waikouaiti, I ; North Harbour, 1*; Caversham 1; Roslyn, 1; Wakatipt, UJ^QK»Hienger, 1 : 24 mem""^^wte of thanks to Mr. Hislop for his Isssistanee, was passed.

i PRIVATE PETITIONS. I The committee's report was brought up, recommending that all the dismissed iemployees should receive six months' [salary as compensation, and that in future jail Government officials should hold office lon the understanding that three months' ! notice alone, "»aa required for their dis ! missal.

BRIDGING THE MANT7HERIKIA.

Mr. ERASER asked whether Govern-

ment had entirely abandoned the idea of bridging the Manuherikia River. Mr. Reid said Government were not prepared

to undertake the work this year, as £3,000 "would have to be expended on the approaches. CROWN LANDS WITHIN HUNDREDS. .-'Resolutions were passed in committee, to take the place of sections 99 to 115, inclusive of the Waste Lands Act.

Mr. HAY moved, " That an address be

to His Honour the Superintendent, requesting that he will be pleased to cause a sum of £3,000 to be placed on the Estimates, for the purpose of constructing a direct line of road, with a '■bridge across the Pomahaka River, from -Waipahi to Leathern Gorge, on the Switzers road via Tapanui." He pointed lout the many advantages, not only to the -district, but also to the province, with regard to the revenue, which would accrue opening up the Tapanui district by tineans of a road, which he had no hesitation could be made for the sum he asked .for. Mr. REID was afraid, although Tapanui was a very important district, that the Government could not agree to so large a grant of money. It was, however, their intention to have a report from a surveyor as to the best line of road

-to the district.

Captait M'KfiNZIE pointed out that ■the inhabitants of the district had a right to expect that some money would be expended in giving them a road, and thought that the Government ought to have given the matter their consideration. The present track was a very rough one, but the proposed road was along the bank .-of the river, And across the river over a over a large plain, and shortened a distance of 15 miles by five miles. The motion was negatived.

Holloway't Ointment and Pills.— Rheumatism UHid Gout.— These purifying and soothing reme-

.dles demand the earnest attention of all persons liable to rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The Ointment should be applied after

, the affected parts have been patiently fomented -with warm water, when the unguent should be diligently rubbed upon the adjacent skin, un-

-less the friction should cause pain. Holloway's Pills should simultaneously taken to reduce in-

and to purify the blood. This > dbraatment abates the violence, and lessons the of goat, rheumatism, and all spas■Hjfeodic diseases, which spring, from hereditary l^pre-dißposition, or from any accidental weakL new of constitution. The Ointment checks the \ ;lacai nukdjr, the Pills restore the vital powers.