PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4516, 6 September 1893, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

ykstehday's summary. , The Electoral Bill made further progress in tho Legislative Council last night. The debate on the secondreading of tho Alcoholic Liquor Sale Control Bill Was adjourned. The Shops and Shop • Assistant'*-.-Bill reached its committee mage in the Lower House, whoip the West Coasi Sutlomont Reserves B-11,- the Post Offieo Bill, and the Civil Service Office Guarantee Bill waa passed. RATING OF NATIVE LANDS. The Baling Bill has heen amended by tho Nativo' Committee bo that Nativo lands he liable for only half the proportion of the rate lovied on that owned by Europeans. THE WOMAN FRANCHISE. Tin l lato-t'developmcnt is that the , uewolnuse to bo moved by Mr McLean giving women voters the same electoral right as last year will divide the Council exactly. Messrs Holmes and Hart having become converts toihn electoral righti tho above is the latest count of ln-acls.

THE TENCINO BILL, The Joint Agricultural and Stock Committee havo amended the Fencing Bill by providing that the provisions of the existing Fencing Act shall apply to Native laud, except any whose title has not heen determined by the Native Lund Couit, The description of femes legal under tho iut has been altered,-N, si. Times.