PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 15 August 1882, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

tTNITED PREBS ASSOCIATION, ■ ' ' i.i i'yri-. > '■' ' v "' '. \ In the House last night the Hon Major Atkinson said the •Government intended; to moye that the House meet at 11 a.mi next Monday,'so,as to give privatememhers the whole'day for \\m bill's,' He" hoped the. session would and by, the close of the present month.'They wbuld push on as much, as possible this ,week and .early next jvaek state what: nleaaiires'it was intended to proceed with. v ' "' The New Zealand loan Biil.i'was, read a second time after Borne remarks from Messrs Holmes, Hurst, and Dargaville; on a division of 44 to 33. Ayes—AlkinBon, Beetham, Bryce, W. C. Buchanan, Connolly, Dargaville, Diok, Driver, Dodson, Fergus, Fißh, Fitzgerald, J. Green; 1, Hall, Hamlin, Hobbs, Hurst, 0. JohnW. Johnson, Kelly, Levestam, Levin, Mason, Mcllwraith, McMillan, Mitchelion, Mnnro, O'Oallaghan, Peaodck, Pearson, Petrie, Pyke, Rollealon, Rutherford, Seddon, Shepherd, Stevens, Sutter, H. Thompson, Trimble, Watt, Whitaker, Wright, Pilliett. UoesAllwright, Barron, Bracken, J, 0. Brown,. Cadman, Daniel, Duncan, Feldwiok, George, Harris, Holmes, Hursthnuse,, Hutchinson, Joyce, Macandrew, Montgomery, MoDonald, Moss, Postlewaite, Seaton, Sheehan, Shrimski, Steward, Smith, Sutton, Swanaon, Taiaroa, J. W. Thompson, Tawhai, Tomoana, Turnbull, Weston, W. White. Pairs :-Ayes: J. ; E.Brown, J. G. Wilson, J. Wilson, Captain McKenzie, Fulton,.Morris; Noes: Ivess, Te Wheoro, M, W. Green, DeLantour, Bathgate, Tola, The second reading of the Tbopndoi) Keolamatjon Bill, intended to'oarry out' .the. agreement made with the WellingtonManavatoi Ruilway Company, was supported by Weston, .Sheehao, Smith, jHall, Shepherd, Tawhai, and Macandrew,'and opposed by Fish, Turnhull, and Montgomery. " The second reading was carried on the voices. ~j, The Lunatics Bill was read a third time and passed. v.-n;.-:i Mr Levastam moved a recommittal of the Friendly Societies Bill to ! amend olause 12 by making the Government responsible f.ir the cost of valuations. Major Atkinson opposed the recommittal, and said he understood the Bocieties did not want the Government to pay, but he thought the oharge was. one the Government should pay, and he would put a sum for the purpose on the estimates. - societies in hisdistrioi did nbt.wiah.ithe Government-to piy. {_ I The motion fbr r the recommittal was lost on a divisionbf Wiofoi and the Bill read a"third'time and passed. • -• -~-- •..-.. The Rajlways Cbnstriiotipn s and Land Aot, Amendment Bill.paise'4 'br<iugb com. mittee, the 'Waka'ta;- Thameir East and ; West'■CoastVMlddle'lslaridvLine being Jidded to'theßoheiale, The Prisons Biilatid Justice'ofPeace BilLwere,. psiaad. through committee, a clause being inserted in the latter that any Justice becoming, insolvent shall ipso' facto bease.tp.be a'Justice of the Peace.'-' ~. Progress ;Vfas reported ,bn 'the Stamp Bjlliand the HquWrb&at lift/; ■'' '■

WOOL. V ~ Mercantile Oitoalw,) As regards looal tharkete, the past month has been quite barren of iaterost, but the advices brought by eaoh succeeding mail of the progress of the May-June series m London, have exoited considerable attention amongst growers and abippera.' .it isiound. that the cabled re- . ports diminished values of •coarse orossbrede and lorignrools are fully confirmed by. the result of sales.. It is alsofeared that the competition which these with from the Home dip Slestriiyg:all hopes of ady recovery at the Hextseriea opening on the 24th mat. As we h'ave previously pointed out, this low range, of values-fbr New,;-Zflaland j .?ery'.materjaUy-/£dßt -c. more than any other woof-DroduciaK oioepting, of course, England.' Twentyhve per 'cent, of oar flocks now cany lonRBook; and -With auoh an impetus to Swazinß as .is antioioated from the Frozen Meat Export Trade so rapidly developing itself,- the will; doubtless, be.ooiM greater, This feature of the market is therefore viewed..with Bomeiepbrehen<lon, > i. . v