PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 5414, 3 June 1886, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Wellington. Yesterday.

Hon Mr Buckley, ih replying to Hon J. Batbgate, said that the Government did not intend to repeal the Contagions Disease Act. On the motion of Hon 6. S. Whitmore it was deoided to obtrin returns showing the expenditure of the loans in each provincial district of the colony from Jan., 187,0 to Mareb 1886. The Defence Bill wm read • third time and passed. Uon Mr BiloWej intimated that Ihe Hon W, H. Reynold! would be swbtn in "an a member of tht, (joTernment w 1 hnriday. HOUSE OP" JttKPKKSE^TA^yM WILLTNOTON, Last bigtt. V . The House met al 2 30 p.m. Beplying to quentionn, it was stated that tbe ro\jt« bj ike Ardbur ?#»p for

the Midland Bailway had been decided upon both by the Royal Commissioners and by <• large majority of the House :— that the compilation of the New Zealand Tear Book .would entail the employment of a large, staff of, clerks, and be too expensive a work foe the colony to undertake, unless ' the Parliament voted the necessary fands for it:—that a road., was being ,made, from Mnrimotu towards Wangauui,' the money for which was taken out of the vote for opening up | lands for sale; a sum of £3000 was voted last year, half of which had. been spent and the other half would be spent this year:—that the Napier.asylum was now practically closed :—that Mr and Mrs Agnew had no claim whatever on the colony. Mr Newman moved that in the, opinion of this House it is advisable that the reserves in land should now be set apart for Charitable Aid, higher technical and primary education, and harbors, and that the House requests Government to give effect to this opinion.—Sir Robert Stout said if that portion about the harbors were omitted from, the motion, it might be accepted; he considered the freehold system had been a curse to the colony. He recognised that the South Island was more careful of its lands, than the North, but that was the fault of the North Island.—A lengthy discussion ensued on tne motion. - Mr Turn bull said he under* stood that in Committee some' one in* tended moving thai the Land and Income Tax should be substituted for Property Tax. The debate was interrupted by the 5.30 adjournment.