PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2370, 11 August 1886, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY

UiNiikd Press Assocumv, . • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Tho House mot at 2.30, Replying to questions' it" was stated ■-. that £1470 had been ! expended for '" " magging, clearing and doepeninp' tho ..Wanganui River up'to the olid of laut '-.year; arid the sum of £'SOD more would .' : be'required this year. ' That the'.lowest -' ■ ..estimate for completing'tlio road from the • Wanganui River to the ftorth Island •-■• ■ - Main Trunk' Line was about £-1000, ■ That Mr Arthur.Clayden'-was'uiidor jj4 engagement to tho Government tu'duliver ™' a sories of lectures in-England, but his timo would expire ill niiiq months. Tho . Government had no porsonal knowlodgo :' •• •of Mr Claydim having made any damaging -.-..■ statements on the commercial morality of . tho Colony. That the Government eould not accede to tho request to abolish. '.•'■• tolls on tho Mahawatu Gorgp Bridge, near WoodvihV That -no application had H ' boen made to tho Government, for tho jf|. eosfc of the defence of Te Whiti, and .that the natives on tho West Coast had.'s'uffi- • cionfc money to defray tjio cost' Of tho • trial, as the Gbvoi'iimuntdi'd not intend .■';'' paying it, • That no good was to bo' •-■gained by instituting enquiries into v.-'' tho reason why such a small pro-portion'-of operators in tho Telegraph •:. Dopartineiit presented thomselves ,at the recent competitive examination. -,,- in telegraphy, l as tlie plan was fully . understood by tho operators. -That. Government thought il hardly likely that . Mr Gladstone would visit Notv Zealand,' ■ . . but if ho did como, overy effort Would be ■;•... mado by the Government to make his .visit as agreeable as possible. That the ;.... dhari/es for tho carriage of fruit' was reduced some time backhand the tariff .•. would now meet the demands of fruit- ... growers. That Europeans residing in tho district were imtitlod to bo" admitted to the Rotorua sanatorium oh tho'recom-' ■ inondatioii of tho medical officer in charge. Jk' Replying to Sir G. Grey, Mr Richard-. ecu Baidho could not state at present -what was boing done for the relief of tho, • ... unemployed in 'Auckland, 'but' GovernML wont were taking some stops 111 the ' matter. Sir G. Grey moved the adjournment' of tho House, and spoke at somo length • ' tin-it, Urging that a sum of money.should . ."' be put on the supplementary estimates (or the relief of thoso persons who.wero now in'groat distress. A lengthy discussion ensuod, in which soyoralmombers took part,- which was lntorruptod by tho 5.30 adjournment;' '. . EvENiNu.Siimd. On rosuming at 7.30, the Stamp Act Amendment Bill was road a third timo and. passed., The Settled Land Bill was road a second timo, and tho House wont Into Committoo on tho Special Powors' •and Contracts Bill.