PARLIAMENTARY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 3203, 27 October 1876, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Oct. 26. The House met at 7.30 o'clock last night. The chief portion of the sitting was engaged on the Public Works Bill in Committee. The Bill passed through Committee, was read a third time, and passed. The remainder of the sitting was on the Disqualification Bill, No 2. Mr Button considered the Disqualification Acts traps to catch the unwary, and hoped to see them wiped off the, Statute Book. The purity of Parliament depended upon the purity of the^people, and statutory purity was a mere figment. He moved an amendment to shelve the Bill. On a division being taken the amendment was negatived by 40 against 12. Various verbal amendments in several clauses were made, and the Bill was reported and passed. . The House adjourned at 2.5. The House met at 2.30 o'clock 'this afternoon. .. • . •: There was very little business done. On- the report of the Joint -House Committee, the Hon Mr Reynolds pointed out the necessity of putting, up baths in connection with the Parliamentary premises. . l ':"'■'.„ Sir George Grey moved the second, reading of the Provincial, Abolition .Permissive Bill. ' ' '' ''*-*'• 1 I '^ The Hon Mr 'Manders followed, and ridiculed the speech as unworthy of one of Sir George's reputation. l ; ,- '"; Messrs Rees and Hodgkinson supported the resolution. ' J The Premier pointed out that what arguments had been used by Sir George - Grey had already been answered over and over again. , . . A division was taken, and; the second reading rejected by 3(5 against 23.; There was no other business of general interest. . , Several orders of the day ' were''discharged. The Waste Lands Administration Bill was read a second time in the- Legislative Council. • • ! -