PARLIAMENTARY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2804, 11 September 1903, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

September 8,

The Council, on the motion of the Attor- ' noyGenera!, insisted upon its amendment in j the Dairy Industry Act Extension Bill, pro- ' viding for the pollution of streams by dairy companies, with which the House had disagreed. Septembbr 8. The Borough of Gore Electric Power Bill was pas.cd, and the Wellington Haibour Board Bill was committed. HOUSE~ 0? REPRIKSENTA'riVrS. September 8. Mr Fnnlds presented a petition frox. Auckland citizens, praying for the repeal of all vaccination legislation. A breach of privilege by the puhlicition of certain extracts of confidential educa* tional docnments in the " New ZeitUed " was discussed at length. Mr Sed" don said tb»t if the editor and publisher did not give a satisfactory explannticn he would set up a Committee of Enquiry. The House then went into Committee to further consider the Estimates. , September 9 Mr Barbel presented a petition from the Newtown hotelkeepers, praying that they may be allowed to keep their houses open till after the decision of the Privy Council had been known. The Premier moved that a Committee of Privilege, consisting of the Speaker, Sir W. Ru-sell, Sir W, Steward, Messrs Millar, Massey and Reddon be set up to enquire into the breach of Privilege by the New Zealand Times, In Committee, clause 2 of Mr Field's Dramatic Copyright Bill was struok out and a new clause substituted. The Bill was then passed. The School Committees Funds Bill was read a second time. Mr Hemes' Rating Act Amendmenb Bill, making native lands fully rateable by local bodie?, was committed and reported as amended.