LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL POWERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 244, 3 October 1872, Page 5

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL POWERS.

The opinion of the English Law Officers of tie Crown upon the case which arose last assion between the two Houses is favorable ti and vindicates the privileges of the Lower Buse. The report is addressed to Earl Ktnberley, and is as follows : - . We are of opinion that, independently ofthe Parliamentary Privileges Act, 1865, tbl Legislative Council was not constitutional^ justified in amending the Payment to Pnvinces Bill, 1871, by striking out the dispued clause 28. We think the Bill was a Mmey Bill, and such a Bill as the House of Coimons in this country would not hive aU«wd to be amended by the House of Long ; and that the limitation proposed to be ilaced by the Legislative Council on Billion aid or supply is too narrow, and woui not be recognised by the House of Comoons in England. ■ 2. We are of opinion that the Parliamentary Privileges Act, 1865, does not confer on th] Legislative Council any larger powers in thil respect than it would .otherwise have possesed. 'We think that this Act was not intencM to affect, and did not affect, the legislaWe powers of either House of the Legisiaure an New Zeaja^d. 3. W» th^nk that (the .claims of the House of Rspkent^tives contained in their message to\tbe Leghjlatiye Council, are well founded! subject of coprae to the limitation that the Legislative Couiwil have » perfect right to jeject any Bill passed by the House of Representatives having for its object to vary the management of appropriation of money prescribed by an act of the previous session. ' \ , \ We have &c. \ J. D. Coleridge, \ G. Jessel. The Right hon.the Earl of Kimberley.

Seventeen thousaid emigrants sailed from Liverpool for America in July. There is some exe.teinent in Ireland over reported gold discoveries. English emigration exceeds the Irish : — English, 71,926; Irish, 62,581; Scotch, The South Shields collier, "The ßrotherly Love," in which the great circumnavigator Cook seryed his apprenticeship, still sails from the Tyne, and likely to last for some years to, come, Slie puit be least pO years eld,