PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2066, 12 August 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) M TUESDAY, H LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. J| The Christ College (Canterbury) Bill was read a second time. Mr Pharazyn moved to suspondthe standing ordets so as to enable the'Wanganui Harbor Bill to proceed. The motion was lost by 25 to 13. Several Bills were received from the Lower Chamber and read a first time. The debate on the Stamp Bill was resumed and adjourned.

The Council adjourned at 5 p.m. until 7.30.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; ■ The House met at 2.30. Leave of absence for a week wasßß j granted to Major Atkinson and Mr J, S, M. McKenzie.

Replying to questions, it was, stated that arrangements were being made' for closing between 7 and 8 p.m. those telegraph offices that were not required to be open during those hours that the local rate on the Napier line, by which; goods of Class .Dare charged as Class C„ could not be abolished ; that the Colonial Treasurer hoped to make a supplementary financial statement next day; that' the subject of musketry instruction waa now. under the consideration of the Govern-

ment.. The following Bills were The New Plymouth Exchange Completion Act, 1874, Amendment Bill .'(Balance), a Bill to amend " The Wellington Gas Co.'s Act, 1870," (Fisher), the W&4 lington Harbor Board Act, 1879, Amendment Bill (Fisher). The House went into Committee on the Resident Magistrates Courts Proceedings Validation Bill, which passed without amendment.

The House went into Committee on the ■Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Bill. A discussion ensued on clause. 20, relating to the election of trustee! by local bodies. Several new clauses were added to the Bill, one of which was that four trustees shall form a quorum, aud that at the first meeting of contributors to the institution,, pot less - than six nor more.than nine trusses shaU be eltcWL Dr Newman moved a new clauas to the ffectthat patients who .have notlived for sixty days previously within theWofipital district in which the institution is situated, the relief afforded to fuehrerson shall be recoverable from tho BoarcT of the district in which the reoipienfchad previously lived. Mr Guinness moved to , report progress, which was lost on the. :y voices. Along discussion resulted from Dr. Newman's clause, which was eventually carried, with the exception that the words "sii months" were inserted in place of " sixty days," and the clause was made to apply to persons coming from another provincial district. Ori - the schedule being reached, Mr Hobbs moved to separate Mongonui, Hokianga, and Bay of Islands from the Auokland distrirt and form them into a separate district. The amendment was carried on division by 35 to 27. The debate waa interrupted by the 6,30 adjournment. A EVENING SITTING, f*v The House resumed at 7.30. | In Committee on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill, various amendments were mado in reforence to the boundaries f districts. Mr Fergus moved to report progress, which was supported by Messrs '. Rolleston, Fulton, Russell, and Montgomery, each of whom spoke strongly against the action of the Government in the matter, and said they (the Government) apparently did not }tnow their own minds, as they voted in opposite lobbies. The Premier asked the House to pass the ~, schedule, and he would recommit clause 5 (relating to the constitution;pf Boards) and the Schedule. The raotion ; to report ; progress was lost, aid the Bill as amen.' ded was then reported, alid^Ve obtained to sit again for the re-cpmlfSiaL The House went into.Committee on the State Forests Bill, which was reporfceij''with third time, and paksed.'- ' "Tke Resident JMstttteß.' Ooiijt krocee<%*' V^idation;BiU r wag;r«^i f ®d "• time arid passed. • i ''The House rose at la.m.'' ,