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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1887, 10 September 1885, Page 2

LATEST PARLIAMENTARY.

' "--» ■■■■ [BY TELEGRAPH.] (rROM OUR SrECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, last night. At the Legislative Council yesterday the report of the conference on the employment of Females and Others Bill, and Justices of the Peace Act Amendment BilJ, were read a second time. The Patea Harbour Board Bill was agreed to ; the Mortgage Debentures Bill was read a second time and passed. Managers were appointed for the conference on Mines* Act Amendment Bill and several bills were considered in committee. The Local Bodies Finance and Powers Bill was further considered by committee. In the House of Representatives several claims, .were struck out after which progress was reported. Last evening.on the question being put to go into committee of supply, Mr Macandrew moved his resolution in favour of insular separation, urg-'. ing separate form of Government for, the North and South Islands. . The: motion met with little sympathy and after a few remarks from Messrs Pyke, the Premier, and Mr Turnbull, was lost on the voices. Captain Russell moved to reduce the public works expenditure as per estimates by half-a-million. He advocated the cessation of all public works for twelve months, and objected to the raising of auy loans this year. Ho had long held that the public works expenditure should [be very largely' curtailed. If continued as at presentfor a few years longer patriotism would be killed altogether ; the property tax was diminishing, and the" diminution in the price of wool would cause a dimunition in the expenditure of the ptople of over £300,000. J£ was therefore necessary to limit our. public works expenditure to the finest; >' limit. A lengthy discussion then ensued, . Major Atkinson, Messrs "Wakefield, Bryee, and Rolleston supported the amendment, and the Premier, Messrs Montgomery, Pyke, Smith, Bucklaud, and others spoke against a reduction of so sweeping a character. Mr Stout said Government "would decline to take back the estimates or make any reductions whatever. Mr Moss moved as au amendment that there should be a reduction. in works in progress, but that tho Government should consider during the recess how the proposition of the.: member for Hawke's Bay could be carried into effect. He, said that if the public works were stopped it would intensify the depression now existing. On the motion of Mr Buchanan, the debate was adjourned until to-nighfc. 1 Apropos of Captain Russell's* motion, it is stated that he is merely the cat'spaw of the East Coast Railway party, who seeing the hopelessness of carrying the vote of £150,000 now on tho estimates are sofcjto stop all expenditure on tho North Island Trunk Railway, Otago Central Line, and other works iv contemplation.

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