In the Legislative Council on Thursday it was announced that a totalisator had been set up on the premises and an unwonted degree of animation was visible in that august .assemblage, Mr Peters■„ moved the second reading'of the. Deceased Husband's Brothers Marriage Bill, to lha wrath of Colonel Brett, .who said it was indelicate. TheßilFwas'read a firsttime',' A call of the House (twelve members are absent) was proposed, but: thrown out by •a laxget.-:iiiajorifcy.i..-> the t no-confidßnce<.debate;!,was;. ; resumed.-Mr-'-Hutchifon ;would nqhrob, the poor
tax,., He thought half the Civil Servants ot the Colony should be of;altogether. He claimed £30)000 might be tfre®duMtiott Estimates." Mr Maoandrew, ibllo wed Isiitid characterised the MlSll./cli^ge v f(jn the' Colony for inter#; only remedy reduction, of expenditure. Mr Ormortd held that Native lands should lie taxed the same as European lands.. He doubted make the railways pay. The debate,was: again adjourned.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 500, 26 June 1880, Page 2
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