LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1860, 7 June 1884, Page 2

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

LEWK OF AKsKNCE. Lv tbe Council, after the delivery of the Speech, a message was received from the Governor notifying that he had given lea\e for the session to. Messrs. Menzies and Holmes and Major Richmond. NOTICES OF MOTION. A number of notices of motion were given, and several papers presented. ADDKKSS iy RIvl'LY. On the motion of Mr Oliver, Messrs McLean, Scotland, Oliver, Waterhouse, and Captain Baillie weie appointed a. committee to prepare an Address in Kcply. Tlio Council then adjourned till next day.

FRIDAY. In the Council, Captain Baillie was reappointed Chairman of Committees, and a number of the usual sessional committees were appointed. Mr Waterliouse asked that he might be exempted from serving npon the Petitions Committee, saying he wholly disagreed with the way in which the committee discharged theiv functions, which has become so wide as seriously to interfere with the freedom of the Executive and the judicature. As showing this, he quoted the case of the Government employe's discharged for incompetency burdening the committee with petitions, aud the cases ot Angelique Therasse and the convict Longhurst. He said the growth of the power of these committees' was quite unconstitutional, and there was no paiallel to it in any other part of the Empire. The debate was adjourned, and the Council rose at 3 o'clock.