DOINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7355, 6 July 1889, Page 4

DOINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

In therLegislative Council yesterday tto Fire aud. Marine Insurance Companies Bill .was committed, and. reported with verbal amendments. The, Council rote at 3.45 p.m. until Tuesday. In the House of Kepreeentatives the Point Resolution Commission's report wM laid on the table. Sir G.^ Grey, moved tuiit.the paper* be' priatfe& hv£ ihWWM lost, the Premier stating that it would cost and serve no good purnoae. A numbt|T of questions were &ewer|d, in the course of which the Premier stated that the Government intended to bring down a \ Bill for the classification of the Civil I Service, and also to provide for retiring i allowances/ The ' Poet OfficV Bill l iM Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Bill were readeseeond time.- The bulk;ef Jb« evening, however, was taken' up sions on the Otago Central Eailway BUI, and the Repceeentatioa BUL The j moved by,, H. Atkinson, and. sop ; ported by Mr Ballance and other .jnefflr here, the only speakers who , being Dr. Hodgkinson and Mr Moss. WJM debate was ultimately aajdurneU'■■"- *** Bialop moved the second reading of the .stepn»entatioa BiU.in a .clear: eaAliM* speech. Mr' Ballance, who followed, expressed the opinioja that it would/.SHf* an education of fifty years to .m*ta*iw» ayerage man understand the Hare tjd&P Hit. O'Conor supported the BUI, ■Wβ^ 5 " i wasopposed by Messrs W. P. Reeves, VotwJrand Van. The debate was Tuesday next. The House rose at W&