PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3574, 30 July 1890, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

Bouse of Representatives.

TUESDAY, JULY 20,

The Speaker took the chair al 2,80..

With reference to the evictions in Otago, the Minister of Landß, in answer to Mr Valentine, said that he believed the Otugo School Commissioners were about to' make two eviction of settlers, bqth of the oases being, }ie was Informed, very bad ones'. ' ■ • .

. Mi Valentine moved (ihe adjournment of tup Hpp'iii order to ijiscuss the' mHtfpr, lie knew,'hr said, of many cages in. which, evictions were threatened.'

Mr Fulton explained, as Chairman of the Waste Lands Committee, that that Committee was now considering a petition-on the subject, and would bring down, a report next day.. Mr Ward suggested that the Government , should' cousider the adyisableness of putting these tenants pn the same foptipgaß"Crown tepapts who were giyen concessions by recent legislatipiv ~,.•> ■- ■Ministers, in/anfiw'e'j to questions, Sllidj- ■ .'.; - ; Immediately oii of- communications fi'om tlie h/iiglish and American Goveriifcetits, the Postmaster- General would make a statement with respect to the San Francisco mail service. It would bo considered whether the' House could : be given an opportunity of discussing-proposdls to tho Australian colonies for.laying a Federal Pacific' catilS. N;

'■ A u r|]S!jip|r.'of thts'.Gpyernmen); had received » tplegriiiif '(rp\j|' ss's. C ! Stewart, .iI.EE., as to the state oj public feeling in Punediii, and ip (

confifiiiatjdnio'ofvtbat Hegraialiad beeareceiyeCßiiice.; :: I;'lt'wSß-:#.;|iitebd^r^n!ig\in : a Bill tb|B; session maWrigbanKaiqieß a fitst'ouargeon bank assets.-/- \"-. : -Bills^tVamßiidHtha -Railways Construction and Land Act and the Life Insurance.Policies Act were introduced'and read a first tirno. Mr Smith'-,moved as', an' amend-, menttD the motion for Committeo of Supply. That in the opinion of this House the reductions proposed to be made, by the..Government to.' the extent of £50,000 should not be made , to apply to the officers of the Post or Telegraph Departments, or to any salaries or Wages under £2OO per

annum. -" ; ' ; ~' : Th'o Colonial Secretary opposed the amendment, which he characterised as practically a. uo-confiderice motion. -.

.Dr'Fjtohett said the Opposition wished to protect those officials who ought not to be reduced. He intimated that if the amendment ■ was '• carried he should move .an addition exempting education from, retrenchment. Sir George Grey : and Messrs Brown, Duncan, Fish, Barrow, Cadman; Beetham, B. -Thompson, Fisher, Monk, Taiwhanga, Hobbsj and "others'- haying the amendment waslost oil the voices. The House then went into'; Com-, niitteeof. Supply on the estimates, a number of important reductions being made. :