PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4475, 20 July 1893, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

I House of Representatives. 3 WEDNESDAY, JULY 19. HANSARD REPORTS. Mr Bichardson complained that i some of the Hansard reporting this [i sossion was faulty, Large portions of speeches wore excised, Tho Speaker said that tho matter would be brought before tho Printing and Debates Committee. Mr Buckland complained that in one of his speeches a good deal ho had y said against the Government did not appear. ' ANOTHER. MOTION FOB ADJOURNMENT. " Mr Fish asked tho Minister for , Publio Works why he had failed to ' carry out tho promise given to Messrs Pinkerton and M, J. S. Mackenzie last session, that he would have the » Otago Central Railway completed, f and the train running to Hyde, by the end of the financial year.oratany _ rate before tho opening of the present j session? s The Hon. Mr Scddon replied that b he had not been able to carry out the promise entirely, but that ho had I gono as far as was practicable, and | had, in fact, exceeded the appropria- ' tion. Mr Fish moved iho adjournment of the House, and attacked the Go< ! veinment for having had the paintine of the Wellington Police Shtion and iJiipicme Courthouse done by co operative labour. The Premier iliinicd that this work had been well done, Ht a fair cost, ', Mr Dutnie said that the co-opera-tive system was an utter failure | After further discussion tho motion , w.iß put and lost. BILLS READ AN R.ST TIME, The following Bills were read a , first time:- Licensing Act, 1881, Amendment Bill No 2, Mr Fish; ' Kiwitea County Hill, Mr Bruce; Submarine Telegraph Cables Protection Bill, Hon J, G, Ward, j ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR DILL. Mr Earnshaw üßkcd that his Alcoholic Liquor Bill, which gives to the State the absolute controlof the liquor j traffic should be discharged from the ordor paper. An objection was made by Mr Fish and tliereforo the Hill could not he I discharged. FINANCIAL DEBATE, The financial dobato in tho Houso oi Representatives was then resumed by Mr Duthie, who delivered a long speech attacking the Government policy, Sir Eobert Stout, in an ablo. address, reviewed the finances of tho Colony, dealing with various points of the Budget in regard to taxation and . the land question. Captain Russell , criticised the proposals in tho State- , ment, and was followed by Mr Mere- , dith. The appointment of the Hon. I W. Montgomery was announced.— I Times.