PABLIAMENTARY NOTES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPOONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1728, 2 August 1883, Page 2

PABLIA MEN TA RY NOTES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPOONDENT.]

The Native Land Law Amendment Act. Wkm>i.voton', Last Night. Tun Native Land Law Amendment Bill provides that no person shall appear in court by counsel. In. case of sickness the claimant may appear by a native. The court may adjourn from time to time and place to place, and may determine without regard to legal formalities* the best means for determining the ownership. Clause 6 enacts that it shall not be lawful after > the passing of the act for nny person to negotiate for the pnrcha-je, lease, exchange or occupation of native land or estates, title or interest therein, until after a day to be fixed by the Governor by proclamation in the Gazette ; such day shall not be less than thirty days after the publication of the proclamation, and shall be within six months after the issue of the certificate of title. Any person who shall before the day to be ao fixed as aforesaid, take or accept any conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance to himself solely, or to himself and otheis, of any native land, or be a, party to any negotiation, agreement, contract or promise, for making to him, or to him and others, or to any other person of any such conveyance, lease transfer, gift, or other assurance shall forfeit, and pay a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds. Every such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift and other assurance, agree* ment, contract, and promise shall, except as hereinafter provided, be null and void. In addition to the other enquiries directed to the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881, to be made by a Trust Commissioner, it shall be his duty to ascer« tain if any such negotiation was commenced or carried on after the passing of the act, and before the day fixed by proclamation as aforesaid. Nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of the conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, cr other assurance after registration trader any act relating to the registration of deeds or lands, but . this provision shall not abate the liability of any person to pecuniary penalty. Nothing in the net shall apply to the Crown. AH moneys payable under the Maori Eeal Estate Management Act, or under any contract made thereunder shall be paid to the credit of an account to be opened for the purpose by the Public Trustee, whose receipt alone shall be a good discharge to any person paying the same, and whose certificate alone shall be recognised by any Trust Commissioner as evidence of any payment having been made under the said acts, and such Public Tjftstee shall not pay any money out of sucvmccounts without the written authoriwHf a judge of the Native Lands Court. "The bill is down for the second reading tomorrow, and the debate is expected to be an animated one,

Law Practitioners Bill. Mr Shaw's Law Practitioners Act Amendment Bill provides that any person Who shall have duly served articles ol clerkship, or who was serving under an ch articles at the time of the coming ■into operation of the Law Practitioners Act, 1882, and who shall be admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court, shall be entitled to lie enrolled and admitted 'a barrister of the said Supreme Court,, providing no rule or cnactmeut shall be in force to the effect that practitioners shall not practise both at barristers ' and solicitors, ' ' ' ' •

Gaining and Lotteries Bill. Mr Sha\y's Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment (Bill 1 provides' that, any person advertising, -publishing* or panting, whether" by newspaper or placard or circular/ or J causing to ' be' 1 so, advertised, publish'^*' or prfrifejd, ',^'an^ lottery or scheuie J vinder' an^ pretdnce, form, dePo^inatioD, w ctafcHption, vth*U

over, shall be cuifty of an offence under this act, provided always that nothing in segthm^pf. the 'said act shall apply to anyWeepstjltte p_r, sweep in which the stake jjf "Share of ea'cli individual participKtSj4fP^h*tl not exceed the sum of tweffiy shillings, and which no person PIS^ (^ ;e *ii f O'W,!0 'W,!l l ' Bea or .conducts for any cM|jiJiaidn or"lewaixl. vwJjPu'^et Steam Service.

TheiGovemmcnfc havcajireed with the New Zealand Shipping Company for a iOda^a' monthly direct stdaal service, gran'tfng - the coitipany th« exclusive tfigmr to carry immigrants ami enigo the government may have to import to the jP>l<s'ny for one year, subject to the approval of Parliament for an extension of %'irtlfc ; the immigrants to be conveyed at ffi^fon adults, £9 10s for children, and TOBtfcge' per letter, Id.

mL, Preservation of Timber. ysAtot<il of 382,485 .acres lms been le|iprv,&d for the growth and preservation M timber. Siuce the passing of the Land Act- ot 1877 at Hamilton an ai ea ot 118 acres has been reserved, the total area of tbj provincial district being 35,000 acres.

Sir Dargaville Distinguishes Himself. Rather an extensive fracas took place ,»toftJiy f . ; Daring the debate yesterday on ■\he Property Tax, Mr Dargaville made ii ,«losfc violent and indiscreet speech, the 'violence of which has been only equalled, 'Jbut; novel' surpassed by Sir George Grey's f.tiriules., He limited "his remarks to the Brenner Knd Treasurer, at whose Heads jjfce, htyriefl charges of corruption in a most impartial manner. Amongst other allega*^fotf(S>'he charged Mr Whitaker with received from the i-iauk of New ''Zealand '£10,000 for assistance given in .fthc 1 passing of a ceftain cojtu>oli(lnlioii lotpi in the year 1807. In .reply, Major -&flSinsoa completely" demolished Mi Dar^avillc's so-called facts, and as a c'tofttural "consequence his aiguments Wpled o.ver. .So keenly did Mi Darga<?Vili^ • feel his 'downfall, (hat he became, furious, and m his blind zeal undertook io prove to a Select Committee that his assertions about the £10,000 /Were "correct. To-day he brought torIW&H a motion to that cftect, and it was \lfi going up to the Speaker's table to (Kcord" the motion that the fravus I'opc.tfrred. Mr Ddigaville's version of the !a'fiEair was that in an undertone Majot Atkinson used piovoking language to .him, and that he simply retorted in similar terms. Uc that as it may, Major Atkinson appealed to the House for piotection from the insulting langu.ifjo made use ot by Mr D.irg.u ille. Mr D.ugaville's reply was that lie had been provoked by Major Atkin&on. The Speaker ititidea demand foi particulaisof the provocation. At this junctuif a soit of upioai occurred, which lasted for some tmir. Secinp; the turn affairs had taken, both parties allowed the matter to diop. The puLlic is likely to hear about it a little more. This is the second time Mr Dargaville has mado such a sprceh, and while the first was a complete faihue, the second i< pronounced on all sides to have been a most precious blunder.