PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2762, 30 November 1887, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

-LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Tuesday, November 29. In the Council the revised draft of the Midland Railway contract was considered. The Attorney General, who introduced the matter, thought theresolutions passed by the House of Representatives were perfectly clear, and considered the contract a reasonable one. Mr Waterhouse, in moving that it be referred to a select Committee, reviewed the history of e'venta man extensive speech, objecting to land to the amount of £30,000 being set apart, as soon as the contracts of £60,000 were entered into, Messrs OJliver and Pharazyn considered that they should guard jealouslv the property of the State in dealing with the contract, The debate was adjourned till the following day, HOUSE UF REPRESENTATIVES. In the House of Representatives, the Minister of Lands moved the second reading of the Laud Act Amendmentßill. Cash sales had been discouraged during the past year, and people with capital turned away from the Colony Hence the unemployed difficulty. The present Bill gavo a choice of tenure, classified land, mill abolished Waste Land Boards. Mr Buchanan supported the Bill, as one which would be acceptable to the country, and which would attract settlement pf a desirable class of people to prevent money leaking; out of the Colony. Mr Beethatn congratulated the Minister on the Bill, but objected to tho abolition of Land Boards, Sir Julius Vogel declared that the Bill meant a forced sale of Crown Lands, and spoke in strong terms against it, After some further discussion, the motion for the second reading was carried by 31 votes to i The House roso at 2,35 a.m.