GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Press, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4637, 11 June 1880, Page 3

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

[PKB SBEBB ASSOCIATION BPZOIAI "WXBB.]

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Thursday, Jttxcb 10.

After the formal business, The Hon. N. Wilson gave|notice to ask if the commission of the peace would be purged •of insolvents and other unsuitable persons. A Bill for the Suppression of Gaming and Setting Houses, and for the more effectual Abolition of Lotteries (Hon. P. Whitaker) ms read a first time.

The Hon. Colonel Whitmore was [given a fortnight's leave of absence. The Deceased's Wife's Sister's Marriage Bill lapsed on the seoond reading. The Rabbit Nuisance Bill was read a seoond time after a short debate, in which the Hon. G. M. Watbbhousb said that the wool exports of Southland had fallen from three shiploads to one through the rabbits eating the pasture, and other parts of the colony were likely to be soon in the same position. In the Fisheries Bill a new dauee, that no Maori should be sued under the Act without the permission of the Native Minister, was inserted after a brief discussion.

The Hon. I?. Whttaxbb said without it jealous people would be found proaeouting Natives whom the courts could not reach, thereby bringing the law into contempt. ATI the other business was routine, and the ■Council adjourned at 3 p.m.