HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1673, 26 July 1892, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Joly 21. Sir John Hall called attention to what he regarded as a breach of the privilege of the Hou«e. A return had been ordered showing the amount of the public debt from 1879 to 1892, with the annual increase of debt and the Treasurers during thoee years. The return laid on the table was incorrect, as it said that for the first time this year the public debt was decreased by £117,000, whereas in facf this year the net debt of the colony had been increased by £334 311. Hβ moved that the return be sent back to the Depertmont for correction. Mr BalUnoe defended the ' return, which he said was perfectly correct as far as it went, and it wae signed by the Treasury official. , After coflsider«ble die-cußßioj),-the motion wan loat by 38 to 23. The' Municipal Corporations Bill end a Bill to amend the Gaming and Lotteries Act. 1831. were introduced.

Th«> Wanganui Hospital Bonrd. Vesting Bill and tfae Wellington City Sanitation Loan Empowering Bill were committed and passed with verbal .amendments, tho latter causing a lengthy diwn-^inn. Mr Hogg resumed tliß dt*t»<«t" on the second reading of the Wairarnpa Ho3pital District Bill, and Mr Fisher's amendment, that the Bill be read a second time that day six months.

In the evening the debate on the Financial Statement was resumed by Mr Soobio Mackenzie, who was followed by Mr W. P. Reeves and Mr Rhodes. Joly 22. Mr Sandford resumed the debate on the Financial Statement, being interrupted by the dinner adjournment. Hβ finished hie speech at the evening sitting, and was followed by Mr Fish, who severely criticised the Government at some length. Mr Earn9liaw was the next speaker, and when be had finished at 12 30 a.m. tbe House rose.