PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 2038, 10 July 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

THURSDAY. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Mr Reynolds moved that it is essential for proper conduct of the businoss of the Council that the Government should have two representatives in that Chamber. Mr Richmond seconded. to, The adjourned debate on tho second second reading of the Legislative CoumSil Bill was resumed. , Mr Holmes supported the amendment, Mr Wilson urged the Colonial Secretary to accept the amendment. Captain Kenny and Mr Wilson would vote for the amendment, as feeling that the country was in favor of some reform, Mr Mantell opposed the amendment, Mr Hart thought it would destroy the character of the Council to mako it elective, I The Colonial Secretary asked .the Council to agree to the second reading, and then the, would consent to the' Bjll. going to the Committee as proposed. ' Dr Pollen asked the Council not to commit itself to the principle of altering the tenure by reading the Bill a Becond time. On the motion for the second reading a division was taken, ayeß 14, noes 26. Tho second reading was therefore nega_

tived. The question was next put that Sir P. Whitaker's amendment be agreed to. Ayes 20, noes 20. The Speaker gave his oasting vote with the ayes, and the amendment was therefore carried.

The following committee was appointed by ballot :—Messrs Buckley, Pollen, Richmond, G. R. Johnson, Mante.il, Menzies, Shephard, and Stevens.' : The Council adjourned at 2.20 p.m. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House met at 2. 30 p.m, The Premier said that in consequence of the manner in which the Committee of ways and means had dealt with the tariff resolutions, he should ask the House to adjourn till half-past 7 p.m. in order to enable the Government to consider what steps should be taken on the subject. The House adjourned at 2.50 p.m. EVENING SITTING.

Me Stout said the Housenadadjourned till that evening to enable the Government to consider the position in which they wereplacedby the votes in Committee of ways and means on the customs tariff, and .after consulting their supporters, wh 0 form a majority in tho House, they had agreed not to ask the House again to go into Committee of ways and means on the tariff resolutions that had been agreed to. With the leave of the House he would movo a resolution to rescind the Customs Duties resolution of the 19th June, except so for as related to spirits, bittirs, and wines, Tlio loss to th c revenue would thusjbe'about L 70,000, and he Government proposed to meet that in the following wayLso,ooo of deficit of 1883-4, at present running, they propose to ask the House to renew for two years; as to other L 20,000 they propose that the Armed Constabulary, whowerenowat work on the permanent defences of the Colony would be paid out of loan. They would thus recoup the L 70,000 which they would have obtained from the Customs Duties, The Government to proceed with the Local Bodies Finance and Powers Bill, and they would consider that a Ministerial Bill in tho strict sense of the term, They were willing to with, draw from tho Bill tho proposal to borrow on subsidies, and as customs duties had been denied to them, they should not ask the House to fix any definite period for the continuance of subsidies to the loca bodies. He need hardly add that he exceedingly regretted that the proposed duties had not been granted to them. These duties, he might say, pressed fairly on all classes and on all articles. The resolution was put and carried, InanswertoMajorAtkinson,thePremier said they were not in a position to bring down the Customs Duties Bill, but it would be ready by Tuesday next,

A Bill to amend the Pharmacy Act> and Hawkers and Pedlars Bill wore intro. duced and read a first time. The Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881, Amendment Bill Mr Hobbs), which discontinues all consultations, sweeps, etc., or their being advertised in the Colony, was read a second time. The cemeteries Act Amend ment Bill and Postal Notes Bill were read a third time and passed without amendment.

Mr Tole moved the second reading o the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1807 Amendment Act, and said the reason for introducing it was the case recently heard in the Divorce Court in Wellington, when Judge Richmond said as the law stood at present, lie was unable to give the young married woman Monckton a release from her husband. After discussion, the motion for the second reading was carried,

Mr Stout moved the second reading of the Municipal Corporations Bill, which, lie explained, was simply a consolidating measure. Agreed to. Some unimportant measures having been advanced a stage, the House rose at 9.20 p.m.