PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1142, 3 August 1882, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

'JO JilffFW ?£^4w !lATIONi ," In the LeiJrtslaiiTO Council yesterday thj Small Birds Nuisauce Bill was read i after a, Abate in wbiol Messrs ifrazer, Chamberlain, ffbitmore, Grace an L 'WHltamtepoke'fip;ii»B( the Bill, am Messrs Holmes, Olliver, Gray, and Millei t inJiti'ftivori s<* •>» il-inW

rf ' In the House the 'report on the Trustees of the Executors and Agency to after eon: siderable debate on division of 44 to 28. In reply to questions Ministers stated the; did not intend to introduce the New Klyuiouth' l>Hmfl#'»Coii)mißßiori Bill. 'Tfojjfconsidered it' the duty ofithe-Go-verpment to main lain railway fences, • t'M'W , Bitti "R ">» Customs IrfWßiQ9y>t!t'la\Vu J.ill »nil Industrial Schools Bill were read a thiul time and passed. l9ft a iP°'|P ft t0 i° into Committee ol Supply, Mr Montgomery apoke for three hflWoviin; .the question oi jthe general financial pohoy. He oottr tended that a great part of past loans had ibee.nl»Beleffiry»Bquandere r d{'a'i(l that the expenditure of borrowed money hud benefited the propertied class, We'Jthe'tafafoon which h had given rise to pressed mainly and unfairly on 18 PreWWes of the community' Be fSfiffij&B® I® l ""favorably regarden on the money market as conAlthough' flurjuatlou was heavier, lie feared that' further 3 borrowing how might render the\ -bnjjlea/jofjtwaiioli unbearable unless its inoidenue was changed and made to fall [mdf«:eq r ur&l6ry on the property benefited! by public works. MM'Wi ikfaki pointedoutthatt the railways were now paying four-fifths their coat and were likely soon to pay . *Hr „^ he P u P"'i«''»n of the colony had i doubled years and ■flie colony Was now in a far;bettor poai- : tinn-to-borrow thanit-was when the loan , policy was uiifiated. Hedepied that the was felt haavily by the industrial classes, and as" the public', . works and immigration policy had tended to lake wages in the past, he did not i think the industrial classes would at all object to an extension of that policy. J Mr Lbvastam strongly urged a repeal! of the beer duty and substitution ofaj (MmHtKe/P^rt,Tu X , jk MrfIoLMKS uureerl with Mr n^H . vgiijtey tlm: Ni«» Zodnhd had portion the heaviest debt Im-.ilie filiation were the heavilH esp'eoially the industrial Be opptWd \Kb expenditures the North! Island main trunk line tifcre waa no. ' ihingMorshow-it wa«;likoly to pay for the > - - . - i >, Mr HuiiSTHO'tisE spoke strongly againßt further.. borrowing, especially fnr 'wilkworkslike the Otago Central Bailway. ' r ' Government : i afe ] serVertho JC thMs u "6f thooulony for . plaoing its finances on so sound and satisfactory a basis. ■ f Mr Fish condemned , the railway .management, and doubted if railways really were so, profitable.- as represented. HBUhodght! the 'whole' \>blioy of the present Government was to relieve" the rich, propertiedHass and Transfer the burden CoKfaxation iolthe r sho'ulders ofthe work-ing-classes.—They should take cff the ibeer tax before rednoiilgithe property tax. i'Mi&J. the financial proposals of the Government at Considerable length, and nrjjed the necessity for a land tax.

JAfter a&ineCTenwks fmm Oaptain Aiin.-oii lvplied at ooppidurablelungih to llm v- : nuitß K peecbes 'atltt then tho House wem in!" supply, .when Ufl,«bßß i' 38,930 k prison*, aud 'iCTOli.forAmijoellaneous services were agreed to and progress being reported the Boise rose at 140.