PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2359, 29 July 1886, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30.. Mr St(mt . moved'; that Government business take precedence on Thursday for the remainder of tlie session. Acreed to, " '

Tho Public Accounts Committee reported m favor of'the purchase of tho Waimea Plains Railway, Sir Julius Vogel introduced the Government Life Insurance Bill and Property Tax Bill, .MrMosß moved the adjournment of the House in order to debate the question of disallowing the use #f tobacco ta unconvicted prisoners. A. lengthy discussion ensued, which was interrupted at 5.30 .

EVENING SITTING. The House resumed at 7.30. The Gold Duty Reduction Bill pnsjed through Committee and was read & third time. The Boer Duty Amendment Bill on the motion of Sir Julius Vogel, ni restored to the order paper, The Treasurer movod tho second reading of the North Island Trunk Railway Loan Application Bill, limiting tho expenditure of that loan to purposes of that railway. These wfero specified as cost of survey, rolling stock,, etc.," aid cost of acqujring native land to an amount But exceeding one hundred. thousand, 24 per oont of, .which was to bo. devoted t„ HospitalandCharitableAid endowments for the North,lsland, ahd fche remainder, to,form a railway reserve,' ' i Major Atkinson, objected strongly to jjej' proviso, .The, North. Islit|( that way to obtain' ripeoial 'endowment,' and personally Tie Held the land fund belonged to the whole of the' .eoleny If the Treasurer eould not ebtafa' thia,

hundred thousand any btherway' strike some of the lipes outjpf his icMflWf 1 of Loan Bill. ? M 1 • ' ' Mr Montgomery alßo disapprtivod" of taking railway moiiey to buy native hind with, and' it riiimlier of other- menifiurs expressed similar, views.. ; Sir Julius Vogel offered to,give up his proposition of endowments and railway reserve, but declined. to - yiold.'tha hundred thousand, and moreover, he said' the Loan Bill-was for railways only ( and could not be muddled with.,, The. Bill ' was then read a second time. ■ . | The Loan Bill was considered in Qom- n mittee. Mr Bryce asked Sir J. Vogol if there would bo a loan next year. .The Treasurer refused to be catechSed, and, declined to give any opinion. Being pressed, ho said so far as ho could see, there would bo no necessity to 'negotiate any furtlur loan before September, 1888, with a view of using it, After some desultory discussion, the clause was passed as it stood, and the succeeding clauses wore rapidly passed up to 16, which Major Atkinson objected to as not sufficiently oar-marking.diffarenfc items. . ... . Sir R. Stout said that could be dojjjfeiu another Bill. r fP : The remainder of the clauses wero passed without comment,. . " '* The item of £370,000 for permanent way, rolling stock, etc., ,Was reduced to £326,000. Sir J. Vos;el then moved to report progress, and the House rose at 3.45 a, mi-