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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1439, 25 July 1883, Page 2

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.;, >,; UNITED/PRESSASSOCIATION, v ' mil t/'*- ''"'' ''"'' •'■"?'■''■:■'-- Premier Gpyernmout would consider the" question 4 of refunding to the Maori members, the sums misappropriated by the late interpreter, although of course not liable to do so. After some discission the motion by the Hon. Mr Hart in favor of amending the Gaming and Lotteries Act so acto prevent newspapers publishing advertisements of, racing sweeps' was agreed to. "..■,. j A 1 Committee was appointed;'.by ballot to consider all petitions alleging grievances under; the Education Act. The debate was. resumed on the Hon. Sir George Whitmore's motion re the Public lyorks.:Policy.. :,..;7 The Hon. Mr Chamberlain, as an amendment, moved that the subsidizing ot steamers on the East Coast beadded to the original motion. This was carried on a division by the Speaker's casting vote, and the motion as amended agreed to.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. In the House the Hon. Major ATKINSON 1 stated that the' Government considered.it inadvisable that the N.Z. Native Land Company's Bill should be proceeded with in any shape, and:Mr De Lautour'withdrew the Bill, and it was discharged. Replying to questions Ministers said there were serious obstacles in transferring to the temperance branch, Assurance Policies taken out under the ordinary system. The Government were, trying to find a way to overcome them. The reason why the Government deemed it inexpedient to offer a reward for the discovery of a payable goldfield in the North Island was the fear of native complications, The railway traffic by extra trains between Masterton and Eeatherston on Saturdays, was not sufficient to encourage putting'on extra trains on Wednesdays. A case of hydrophobia had ocourred in Australia in January last to an imported dog. The Government have no objection to reduce the fee on late letters and those posted in railway vans to one penny. They saw no reason to pay the Westland County £3OOO if the Otira toll gate was removed. After tome opposition from .Mr Seddon, Sir G. Grey, and Mr Holmes, 'the Hon. Major Atkinson introduced The Legislative Olcers Salaries Bill, and it was read a first time. Major Atkinson also asked leave to introduce Payment of Members of General Assembly Expenses Bill, . Mr Seddon, Sir G.„Grey, and Holmes opposed the Bill as it proposed to include payment to members of the Legislative Conncil. On division leave was granted by 49 to 9 and the Bill read a first time,

The debate in the report of the Annexation Committee was resumed by the Hon Mr Rolleston, Who strongly supported it, urging the necessity and desirability of annexing the Pacific Islands.

Col. Trimble was opposed to annexation in any shape. > Mr Peacock approved of it, but not of committing the colony to an indefinate liability. Mr Wyjw Williams thought our liability should be defined. At the suggestion of Mr Montgomery, Major Atkinson promised to have the report printed in paragraphs which could be'put separately on Thursday. • ' The debate then adjourned. The Parliamentary Witnesses Indemnity Bill was passed through all stages.

Sir 6. Grey took exception to tlie accusations made in a petition from Pgverty Bay, which the Hon Mr Bryce ljad presented against the N.Z. Native Land Company's Bill. l\, accused the promoters of having kept secret the real purport of the Bill in order to force it through the House by unconstitutional means, Although it bad been read by the clerk, it' should not, he thought, appear in Hansard. Mr A. McDonald defended the company and condemned the petition and its promoters. After some further discussion, the Speaker ruled, that petitions read by theclorkshould not appear in Ifansard, and any libellous'or improper petition would be struck off the records of the House, The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Estimates for the Minister of Justice's Department, A long discussion took place over the v0te£49,901 for R. M., District Judges; and Wardens Courts, Ultimately a sum of £SO was struck off the travelling allowances of the R.M. atTimaru. On the motion of Mr White, and at the Hon. Mr Connolly's request, the salary of the R.M. at Ashburton wa3 reduced from £SOO to £4OO. The whole vote was then passed. - On the vote of £12,200 for Criminal prosecutions, the motion to reduce the item of Crown Solicitors and Prosecutors from L7OOO to LSOOO was rejected on division, and the vote passed as printed. The votes for Coroners Act and contingencies were passed, and a : long discussion arose on the vote of L 38.883 for prisons. Mi ,; Macandrew took exception to the first two items: the raising of 'the Inspector's salary from to WOO, and an allowance of £IOO in lieu of quarters, The Hon, Mr Connolly explained that Captain Hume was engaged in England for three years, terminating in September next, when if dispensed with or he elected to return to England, the Government will have to pay his and his family's passages. He intended to do this unless his salary was raked, and the Government felt him to be a valuable officer, whom it was most undesirable to lose, A discussion ensued, Messrs Macandrow, Bracken, and others objecting to an English inspector at all, and Messrs Hurst, O'Callaghan, and others to the increase as too large, Mr Seddon warmly defended 1 the .vote. Mr O'Callaohan moved that the allowance of £IOO be struck, out. Carried on division, by 24 to 23.: (} ■ Mr Shekhan moved to strike out

all the items for Mount-Cook prison considering the Government were tryirig to establish a central prison for the colony therein defiance of the oft repeated decision of the House against having a central ga01... .7, . Messrs Connolly ami Rolleston said no such attempt wfis being made, only a new prison was wanted, in Wellington,.and the Government were trying to build it.on the mostapproyed principles, by prison labor. 7 They, y were also building 'one in Aucklattdj / and would' soon be doing go in: '; Dunedin. . ..^-v .'"•;..'. Mr Bracken_a'ii(l>others protested. against prisoner being removed'from •;■.; ojther gaols to" Wellington. ' -'. ;! ' ; ■MrHutchinson said Wellington certainly did "not want them or a central prison. 7 ■' . ■:, .7 Mr Sheehan'B amendment lost, byj2 to 13, and the total, vote for JSSpns,,,-, less the £IOO, house ■ allowance- pTsied J i\ The total Class of Justice was passed.. At 2,30 progress was reported, andtheHouseirosei,.,.:;; .[-..^iiJii