Parliamentary Notes.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 65, 7 October 1875, Page 5

Parliamentary Notes.

— + Tlie Abolition Bill has at last passed through the House of Representatives. There was not much debating on it on tho occasion of reading the Bill a thud time. Both sides seata to have got pretty well tired of it. There was one clause however, which gave rise to a good deal of debate. It was a clause providing that the Executive Council of the colony should' take the place of the. Provincial Councils. As tho law at present stands, there are many things, requiring to he done that can only he done hy the Superintendent in conjunction- with the Provincial Council, The clause will place larger power in the . hands of the . Executive Council, a power which it' was never' .intended they should havo, j and which, if long continued, would scarcely fail ' • ,to be -abused. I. ;• , ; , " '•] : The Government have taken up the Estimates \ and kre passing *th'eth slowly through. ' There has •! been no financial debate as yet. ; I, understand,, however, ,-that the Opposition are not to , l«t the ! Estimates pass without opening .up .the' question ; of the -financial position l or the colony. : Probably/ ' the discuesitjn will take Iplace. next week. „ „ There we.i*e no fewer than two IJjlls before the House .on the sanie evening, for the redii6tion of ' 'gold duty. "Sir Getfrge Grey's Bill provided for : the . immediate, and^ complete ■< abolition -of > the duty. „ Mr Shepherd's provided fpr'ibe're'duction of the dutyhy Gd'per'oa." Thei|e "Rills Torigrinated in.a' disbussion* 'on 1 the Abolition: Bill . hvllen in '..Conuxsittee, "• 'The gold r duty into be Subsidised ■ put drthe consolidated fund and the, land fund.' • TheiVfo i Tittle hdpe, however,• • that the Gdreni- • nientwillbeablaj.to fulfil,' their ; promisef» in thii ,i\esp9c'/..,,,"8djbh. Bills were lost. „ i. -r "\ You are 5 a/ware^"^ a Bill passed through tjie House" 1 61 { Representatives" 1 making 'the area! ua- ; ,-Hm.Wpct?'h«t*/ mJgWt-bei opened »pjfprsetfclen)eiit • „ under deferred p,swmenis.. -.The Rill.w^s.s'ent up ■ '■to the L^latiVe^uMil; ; : A» ahktter of bourse; ( ifc 'passecC 'd'A-'-thJa Waste I'l^fl^'Oon^mifcteeV ' When'i|j c^nie, ont-pf the, Cjiptiflittee it tyaa . com» -■ r pletely , changed in j its character. . • It ' provided ' tha't'the' deferred payjiieiit' land should be 4'a <per : •acre^.:htstead)Jof c2sr£dj^lthafc.ty bn'dWf ith'i' pv<?xp?.<? should be,<jtfyided ; iutotwo kipd*,' agri-" cultural" and pastoral';," that the a^cultural'. ' sho'iud ne* £2 : p&-aer*e," : and : ! fchejiadtoral: -£l j per acre,' jThisis the "qW, story.' ; ; ; The . yunjbolders .'wish tq^have the - r chance .of buyjng. the qyes rof r "thq cotthtry, eveb atthefugti they shduld pay £2 per stcr^ f or : iti : " Th'6yf would '■ th«b ' be ) able to dictate ;theii?own. : isa,r ms; as ;fcq jbhe pastrftel; lands'.' ' jtis.nepa^ 3 say ,that thAamendnienis will I not be accepted vbjH 1 tfie Legislative Council, .pr, » that the question of ;fche;a»ea af :land thAt may be; [ .openedj^pin-auy.^ivs ygar- will remain exactly^ "WCIQT© iii Wfl.B t • - • r 't'i '■• "Thfe' BUI ! fti- ; there-distnbaUon of _ the representation hhs heenibrought down' , It is a yery- ujos^tipf j^otory : affair . indeed. „. , does ) hot ' alter ' ''the,' hdundaries .of ' a airigledis'triot/. There •' is "gr^at'iieed' for consolidation^ i'-Twb of I •ilhe. districts [be:. p\»^|.TOfc> on? , and pWo' \ should -be, made-of some ,th^ee pf r tho,,di'sJ<rictsA 'It 'ii understood 'that tp'e flierpbeiri representing j '^mall. : '-fcoiißtitubnci6s &ave> been' the (^vernm^nt.^^jtjve^iew of j;jti4^pg[j^rorn- i men* to aliqw , tmngs'-tp 'remain' .very much anf ! ' they mAA^m'^ Members' 'are' " wl& ]*£ : fc<s> distiSotftthafrMve'grown7 : : ssinoe. ijbe, f laa^ Jja, ihe, reprfr; , sentatidn. „jDiih'edin i? to get one neivme^hber,, ' It is generally tthderftooa "thiitlpe'G^Wjnlent'.