PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1773, 29 August 1884, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

ut (United Press Association,) ~: [By Telegraph.] ; TV, 4.1.. IT 1...L O! U j... vuu JJ.UUOD laou oil \JfcUKUE \JUHX I gave notice to introduce the following j Bills:—Bill to repeal Property Tax s Assessment Act and substitute Land . Tax; Bill to reduce honoranam for lt present' session; Bill to substitute i Affirmations in lieu of Oaths; Bill to } regulate admission of persons to prace ticein Courts of law; Bill to provide 6 for construction of harbor works at e Gisborne. 6 Major Atkinson announced the forh mation af a Government as follows : n Major Atkinson, Premier; Hurstbouse, j. Minister of Lands, Immigration and 'a Agriculture; Mitchelson, Minister of j Public Works; Wakefield, Colonial % Secretary; Russell, Postmaster-Gene--3 ral; MoLean, Minister of. Trades and e Customs, He proposed on Tuesday lt to state the policy of the Government, e and be hoped on that day to announce tt dates on which the Financial and e Public Works Statements would be , a made. He intended to ask for supplies a as follows:—£7s,ooo for consolidated e fund, and £75,000 for public works tt fund, 0 _Mr Stout said it was not the iutens. tion of the Opposition to oppose Sups: plies. He gave notice of his intention „ to move to-day that the House had no e confidence in the present Ministry. e Major Atkinson would be' prepared t to come to a division on the motion r with the least possible delay. a _On the motiou for going into supply B Sir Julius Voqel said he would with t permission make a short statement. g i The cash in the colony yesterday from j. all sources with consolidated and public tt . works funds was £26,000, and in . L0nd0n,£267,000, of which £86,000 B must go to! meet engagements, leaving i £171,000 in London, and £26,000 3 here, He had how much j was necessary for consolidated and j public works funds, and'having fixed , £150,000 would not oppose that b amount being granted. After referring 1 to the Deficiency Bills he mentioned 1 the delay of payment made to persons , especially to the contractors from the , treasury. These delays, he asserted, I caused ten per cent to bit placed on die | price of contracts,, as those interested , could not afford to carry on while being kept' so Ions; without their , money, and therefore in their contract p schedules they anticipated such con- » Though the Treasury got , the odium he believed the Department f were" to blamo. He thought Major Atkinson ought to mike a statement , Wore asking for supplies. , Major Atkinson thought Sir Julius - Vogel'a statement irrevalent to the , motion for going into supply, and that ( under the circumstances it was not i necesiary for him to make a statement, He admitted a good deal of what the late Colonial Treasurer had said, but " delays mentioned really existed he would on enquiry seo that the system was altered, It many cases contractors , were to blame themselves, The House then went into committee of supply j, w. Thompson being voted to the chair for that evening. An Imprest Supply Bill was introduced and passed. The House adjouqed at 8.45 p.m. until 2.30 p,m. Nay.