HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 1669, 12 July 1892, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

July 7. Replying to Mr Joyce, Mr Cadman said ho had received several reports from magistrates on the question of dealing with children of tender years who might be found on public Btreets without reasonable excuse after a certain hour at night, but he had not had »ime to look into them. He Bhould do so as soon as possible, and inform Mr Joyce of his decision. The following Bills were introduced :— Westland and Grey Education Boards Bill, Labour Departments Bill, Crimina l Code Bill. Mr Seddon. who resumed tbe interrupted debate on imported coal duty, moved that the matter be reforred to a Select Committee to make enquiries, Mr Jackaon Palmer seconding the amendment. Thiß produced a keen debate, in ihe course of which the action of Ministers in proposing lo refer such an important question of policy to a Committee was severely criticised. The matter wbb Bgain talked out. In the evening the second reading of the Coroners' Inquests Bill, moved by Mr Taylor, waa agreed to. Mr Lawry then moved the second reading of the Compensation to Licensed Victuallers Bill, nearly every member of tbe House taking part in the discussion which followed. Mr Duthie moved un amendment to the effect that the Bill Bhould be withdrawn and the Government bring in a Bill this session dealing with the whole matter. The second reading of the Bill was lost on the voices. An amondment by Mr Rhodes that the words " this Bession " be struck j out of Mr Dotbie'e amendment was lost by i_3 to 12, and Mr Duthie'a amehdment, as 'moved by him, was lost by 27 to 22, the Bill therefore being killed. Jolt 8. Mi Ballance moved-*" Tbat the House desires to express its opicion that the proposed introduction of coloured labor into Australia by the resumption of recruiting among tbe islands of the Pacific is a retrograde step, calculated to do serious injury to the people of Australia as well as to tbe coloured races concerned, and the authorises Sir Geo. Grey to represent tbifl colony in Australia io reference to the question." The debate that followed lasted until the dinner adjournment, and (the Orders of the Day having been postponed by consent of the House) was resumed at the evening Bitting. The speakers who opposed the motion doubted whether Sir George's expressed views on the question of coloured labour in Northern Australia would permit of his supporting the terms of the motion in Australia, and they also pointed out that the climate of that part of the country rendered it itnpoe- ' sible for Europeans to work on tbe sugar

plantations. Mr Fish moved an amendment to the effect that the information at the disposal of the House was bo limited that it would be unwise to express any decided opinion .on the matter. The motion was, however, carried by 34 to 18, end the amendment wis lost. The second ronding of tbe Oyster Fisjheriea Bill, moved by Mi- Seddon, was carried. The measure proposes that portion* of harbors:may t-e closed for oy«ter bode, and imposes Is pf r 1001b bag on exported oysters to meet the expense. Mr Ballnnce moved tne second reading of the West Coaßt Settlement Reserves Bill, which was supported by Mr Roileßton, and referred to a Select Committee.

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