HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7965, 12 September 1891, Page 6

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Thursday, September 10. , EVENING SITTING. PAYMSST OF MEiIBEBS. After the Telegraph Office dosed, Mr Duncan's amendment proposing to fl» the honorarium at £210 instead of imw proposed by the Bill, was rejected by 30 to 21. The following is the division list :— Aybs-24. Messrs Blake Messrs Mitchelson Buchanan Moore Bucklaid Dr. Newman Duncan Messrs Rhodes Duthie Rolleston Sir John Hall Captain Russell Messrs Houston Messrs Swan Kelly, J. Tanner Lawry Thompson, Mackenzie, _**• T Thompson, McGuire T. Meredith Thomson, Mills, J. J « w « Noes—3o. Messrs Ballanee Messrs Kelly, W. Buick Macdpnald Cad man Mackintosh C«£ross Mills. C. H. Carroll gal™* Dawson I* , * 6 * Earnshaw Pinkerton Fish Biea „ Fisher Ke J Te *« R Fraser * * Sir G. Grey Richardson Messrs Guinness <§*?! w ivr Harnlin Smith, E.M. Hogg Smith, W. Hutchison, _ c « , W. Ward Kapa Clause 1, which provided that payments should not be anticipated, pledged, nor seized in execution, was struck out on the Toicfis * A provision was inserted to the effect that any Legislative Councillors absent the whole session should receive no payment from the date of proclamation convening Parliament until the issue of the proclamation convening the next ensuing On the motion for the third reading, Mr McGuibe moved an amendment— " That the Bill be read a third time that day six months," which, after a long debate, was lost by 30 to 14. The third reading was then agreed to, and the Bill passed. BILLS PASSED. The Public Trust Ofllce Bill, Small Birds Nuisance Bill, and Stamp Ace Amendment Bill were put through the final stages. The House rose at 3.30 a.m. Friday, September 11.