Parliamentary.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 822, 22 September 1877, Page 2

Parliamentary.

[From Our Speci tt Oorr -sp >n lent.] Government Bcildings, Last night. Members ball last night was a grea success. la the House to day, Mr Murray gavr notion tuaC ou the Sfcomt >ci 'lug of the Native Lands Sales Suspension Bill, h< would move an am -.a men 6, "Tint, a. imposing a bar to t.e progie^s cf settlement m the N mb. laiantl, and depriving hrt uative people or p>vr of dealiug wi h ti.eir property, ttte biil is unsatisfctutory." Tbe Imprest Supuly bill for £250 000 pa^el tbroagrh all all its stigea, at - a slight discussion. I'be Oppo-ino<i intended, at tir t, ru'si a d«bite on th^ •dli, but lcaruiu^ iba" £25,U0i) vras re gui el to be sent hi. me by Ou-uioj row's mail, they withdr- w all «»pp >-itiou to it. In r-ply to a question, ihe a,jverum^ut t-ttited th>it it was not at present inleudec to conti ue Sir Juliu-t Vt» K el's eugajjeairnt as Agent-General boyoud the ou^ina: term, no looker, ind.-etl, than uecus.ary to m«ke provision for obtauiug a successor. In committee on rhe E iu-jation i>ill, a clause waa ad iptsd exumptins; public 3jlioolß and lands from local rates. The contribution from th« c n-olidatel revenua was raise I from £3 10* to £3 15s p-T krta 1, and Mr B. wen said a lurtucr sum, probably, of 10.4 per head wou d be votmi m th« ordiu.iry m.nner, to supply the place of tho cipitatioo tax. The Opposition do not intend to make any attack ou the Grovernmeut till the Public Works Estimates are brougut down. English news to the loth reports iutther auooes* by the Turks.