TUESDAY, JUNE 10.

Waikato Times, Volume VI, Issue 324, 11 June 1874, Page 2

TUESDAY, JUNE 10.

Mr Slioohan moved, " That the bon. member fbr Tfaiultu (Mr E. Hainlin) be appointed Chairanan of Committees of the Council. r J he motion occasioned considerable discussion, in which Mr Humlin was much oomplimented upon, tl}« manner in which bo discharged bii duties as temporary chairman, but the motion waa opposed wd. ultimately -withdrawn. The Education Bill wag. read a third time and passed. On the motion for passing the bill, three members protested against tho bill becoming law, but tbo ground of pcoteit in | each caso was different. I The Maioro Road Bill was further considered in committed, reoorted to the Speaker without amendment, read a third time, and passed. The -adjourned debate upon the motion thai the preiPiJ; arrangement for the control of the police shall not be disturbed was resumed. Mr Slieehan, however, said it wits not the intention of the Executive to ask for a division upon this question. Mr Dargaville called 1 for ft djvisiont which was. taken with the following result: — Ayes, 23. Noes, 3. Tho Fencing Bill was further coreidered in committee. The bill passed through committee and was reported with amendments. The third reading was fixed for Thuusday. The Impounding BUI vrasjeonsidered in!comnnttee, but no progress was made. The Council adjourned at a qnni ter to 12 o'clock.

The steamship Spain, Captain Grace, of the National line, reached New York on tho 10th of March from Liverpool, with 172 passengers. She left Liverpool on the 25th of February, nnd on the fifth day encountered a regular hurricane, carrying her boats from the davits and smashing onq of them, but the sailors secHred the lifeboats before they could be carried off. Both funnels were badly broken nnd tho stenm pipes carried away. The foiward luliicl was forced in just ns if it; were nmJo of brown pai er, and at one 1 iinc.it whs feared tho seas would forco their way down to the furnaces and put out tho fires. For four days the most fearful timo was. experienced. The windows of the cabins were forrod in, and tho pilot-house was in great rUk at ono timo of being carried away. At ono time the forepiutof the vessel was down in the sea, and her stern high up jn the nir for several minutes, and it was feared s.ho was about to founder ; but she righted ogam. All through tho remainder of ihevo\agc tho weather was exceedingly rough, so that tho saviors could scarcely walk the decks without the risk of being swept, o\er. Canada is making a grcnt bid for population. A passage across tho Atlantic for 40s, a hundred acre farm freo (eight acres to be cleared free of cost), and a comfortable lo» hut. ! Such oilers n ay appear to a hard woikcd English labourer a I "limjite ul iore.6hadon ing ot Taiaditv-