PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1169, 4 September 1882, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

.'. O '(omTEDV'pMs'fijsioorA'rioN.) The House met on Saturday at •11/ aim? fir Committee the Tea Bill passed without amendment, The Bating Bill was further considered in Committee, and a new clause moved by Major Atkinson to render'it i optional if or Boroughs, to come under the Act. Mr'Seddon'moved to extend the privilege to County.Councils, Road Boards ind Town .District Boards. This waa ; negatived by-56 to 16 thV ; new clause agreed to on the voices.- Some other formal clauses were added to the hill, and .it was reported as'amehded. ? ! ; ; : < ; .

The Road Boards Bill was further considered in committee.. A proposal to allow holders of miners rights {blvote: W Road Boards was negatived by 38 to 23. After passing clause 50, and a proviso to a provibiiß clause^that no.ratepayer' should: vote who had not; paid all his progress Was re'ported and leave given to sit again,"' '"" After some discussion as to the delay in bringing down the Supplementary Estimates and the Hon. Major Atlinso'n Baying they OOUld not do so till the L.an Bill was passed and they knew' what fund* would be available, the House adjourned' at 6.5 till 11 to-day.

THIS DAY. , The* Howe met at 11 o'clock,: • >,' \ "'.»' Colonel Trimble brought up tie report of Native affairs on the petition of MnFaiaroa and on the motioa that it lio on the' table, ' , Mr Taiakoa moved that-it be not received. He alleged that it was not considered by the committee, and that it was decided oh uartv grounds, ...fy\\-;- !| ,-n ■ ■'■- ■;;; .

Mr Bryop, defended the • committee frlim the imputation,: .He,,warned-natives .thatthese taunts and imputations would not, be tolerated even from natives.; The; report /fas agreed; to on .a majority, of H to 6, four \ •of the former Miu>,'members of the native race, -That was what transpired on the previoub occasion since th'eri report, had'been recommitted at the 'instigation" of' petitioners. ■Further evidence' wai 'taken, and the report nor.'brbught, up,, a.id it Was - the 'almost unanimous' fading ' of' the. Committee., -..What: he , protested •against, wasjhe gross imoutations madefy Native Members when matters did not suit thar views, tf such -bonduofrwas persisted in. Native affairs the Uommittee would have to he abolished altogether, ~ I'e Whisoro said he was quite sure that no good had ever been derived by Natives from this Committee, and uo great harm would be done if it were done away with. As Maori .members they o|ily considered Maori claims that were just. ,( He'supported' the amendment that the report'be' not re ; ! ceiveil. . '

. Mr Sheeijan, mthoutidefeiidingjtjhe ob jeohqnuble statements inado.'ooiittin'ded that the imputation was riot stronger than ones '.that have-often' been 'made'•%' 'European members;:: The Maori members' ohargodwith being ao'ombihitibu ob behalf of Maori people, lwhisked if they-were "the only combinations.%, thftt. House/7 flhey had West Qoast oomhiuatiQns Provincial combinations'; and all Boris of oomjiuatfokß, 1 With regard to this claim, he''remjhde'd ■them that all sorts of-promise* had ''been' i made in counectiori > with "■'thia'" ; miafj < ' l n the other Houso it "was i° U j° d J attUs oli"nha<*not'-beeri-satisi-fled. This was a State question, and 1 the? should have taken ever/possible evidence on the subjeot, whioh had not been done"' He regarded this merely as a protest without imputing' nn'spoten motives to any-' one./.:. ;./\ ; f' ; < v j_,- a jv ' , ' Mr Daniel said that .the South Island Natives hadnot.bWni.fairlyldealt with7and f regrc.tted._.the„pp3itfon..takett.;up>-by~the v Native Minister.' The faot was that all that was given to .the Natives : for the; vast country of Southland would' to one farthing for 500 acres.'