LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. (From our Special Reporter.) DIVISION ON SEPARATION. MAJORITY FOR GOVERNMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 663, 19 August 1876, Page 2

LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. (From our Special Reporter.) DIVISION ON SEPARATION. MAJORITY FOR GOVERNMENT.

[The following was published br us as a second edition, ou Thursday afternoon.]

Government Building-;. Thursday, The Debate closed last night. A division was taken on each resolution as follows: The resolutions were then put seriatim, tho tirst, resolution • That in the opinion of this house the financial an/I constitutional arrangements of the Uolouy should be reuonsi lered' was cirri od on the voices us nlso was the second, namely, ' That the union of the Colony should be maintained. ' ' A flit isioii whs taken on the 3rd ipsoliitiou ' That there should be two Loc«J Givernmmts, one for each LJuil;' it resulted as foil >ws :— Ayes, 33 — Di^uan, Grey, Hanilin, Lisle, Miicfarlane, O'Rorke, Rees, Shech.-in, Swanson, Tole, Tonka, Whitaker, Wood R G, Fisher, Waso:i, Bi-o va J 0, (Teller,) Burns,]/ De Latonr, Hislop, HoJgkinson, Joyce, Lumsden, Macandrew, Murray liead, Seritoa, Shrimski, Stout, (Taller), Thomson, Takamoana, Nahe, and WakeHtsld. Noes : 47— Cox, Douglas, Read, Ro we, Williamson, Atkinson, Cirring-ton Urmond, Sir Donald McLean, Russell, Andrew, Ballance, Bryce, Hunter, Johnston, Pearce, Vogel, Biicjent, Curtis, Gibbs, Henry, ETursthouse, Kennedy, Sharp (teller), Woolcock, Kenny, Symonds, Harper, Bi)wen, Pitzroy, Montgomery, Moorehouse, . Murray- Ay nsely, Richardson, Rolleston, Stafford, Stevens, Teschnuker, Barff, Button, Tribe, Maunde-a, McLean, G Pyka (teller), Tawiti. Pairs, Ayes: Bastings, Lanarch, Reynolds and W Wood. Noes: J E Brown, Richmond, Kelly, Tairoa. The division on the resolution as to tho charge for infceiebt ou tho public debt to be made upon eacli province was :— Ayes, 32 ; Noes, 4G. It will be observed that the Government supporters in the above division uutnbur 4G. Whereas, in the first division they numbered 47. Tho cause of the change, was, that Sir Robert Douglas voted with the Ayes, and Mr Donald Ried wa% not in the House when the division was tukeu. On the sth resolution a division was taken, resulting as follows :— Ayes 32, Noes 46. ° Resolution-? 6 and 7 as to tho seats of the Government negatived. Ths resolution that the seat ot the Colonial Government w.is to remain aa present in Wellington the speaker declared (he Noes to have it, and a division was called for and t-ikeo. Tho reeult being Aye* 17 .Noes 30.