PARLIAMENTARY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 673, 5 October 1876, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

GOVBBNJCINT BmLDINOB, W*Li,iNoro«, Uik nighh In the Home yenterday in committee, on »h« Counties Bill, the burrowing po*eri were reduce t to two years inootuo lustra I of thr«e ve»r«, nmi some neir cl>uiosM to re-divisu»n of Couuuiea intio. duo«.d. No ether amendment! of aay lmpoitunce were male. Tne oon«ider> ation of tf>o ■ohedalcii w»s poaponed. liie Eiuuation Board's dill win further connnlored in comaaittee, »nd •overnl •menduieuU made. The Bill

subtequently pa.aed as amended. POWER <>1* PAHUxMitNT TO ABOLISH PROVINCES. To-day siir G Qrey said it appeared from * memorandum »nbmittel by Min-aters to the Goyeruor, and paLlished, that an o^inloa had b>-en obtained from the Law Officers in England as to tho power of the Assembly to abolish th» Provinces. He wished without notice to auk th« Government if this was so. Tba Premier laid the Hon. Members should givo notic«. Sir George Grey then gave notice for to-morrow Ljave of abseuoe for four e«n days was granted to Mr Tmroa. The promotion of Animals Act Amend* ment bill (Sir George Grey) win introduced, and read a Jfir«t tinie. lv reply to Sir George Grey, tho Premier aaid the Financial Statement would be made on Friday night. Tho Dew m»p of the oounties show* 60 countiei in the colony, thus situated : North Island 31 : West Coast. — M<>ngonui, Hokianga, Hohson, Waitamata, Manukan, Raglai, Kawhia, Taranaki, Pa»ea, Wangaaui, Rangit«k«i, Manawatu, Hutt, Wairarap* VTesfc. East Coast.— Bay of Islanda, Wangarei, Maraden, Coromandel, Thames, Tauranga Whakatano, Uook, Wairoa. Hawke'a Bay — Waipaua, Walrarapn East. Cantral. — Piako, Waikato, Waipa, King's, and T»upo. yourH Island. 31 : West Ooast. — liuller, Inhangahua, Grey, Westland, L»k-> Land Fiord. North Coast.— C-ilin^ wood, Waimta, Sonnds. E»st Ooait — Marl borough, Kaikonra, Amure, Ashley, Courteney, Akar»a, Ashburfan, Geraldins, Waimato. Waitaki, Waikouaiti. Peninsula.— Taireri, Bruce, Clntha. South Coast.— Southland (inoludlna SUwart's Island), Wallac*. Central (»n Otago). - Molynetnx, llaiaoto andTuapeaka,

Wbmjnotoit, Tuesday. AKRIVAL OE GOVERNMENT YACHT. t Arrived : New Government steam y *cht Hinemoa,' from Glasgow via Adelaide She is a handsome three-masted clipper yacht, and not of such deep draught aa was reported, but ,till sufficiently deep to limit hor visits to the principal portt exceeding lift. The report! about her costly plate and dinner service are utterly unfounded. She seoms a strong as well as » handsome and suitable iteamer for the work, if work exist.

THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS. The criminal seision of the Suprema Court oponed to-day. There weie seven caeos, the most ierioui being an attempt to commit an nnn«tural offence, a charge, of rape, one of burglary, and one for cutting and wounding.

TJiUB BILL AGAINST 0. E. HAUOHTON. The Grand Jury found a true bill Rffsinat CB Haughton for lodomy, and the Chief Justice ordered the rape case to bo postponed for three months, in consequence of the child being so young, and to enable her to be instructed as to tho nature of an o«lh. Yratsrdny nn iron lafe 'at the Gorern"r 1 ? 11 3 Bl i lldlli e« *»» broken open, and robbel of over £100. Tho culprit ii not yet discovered.