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Clutha Leader, Issue 221, 4 October 1878, Page 5

■^/N^v-p^tfll^ByirTELEGBAPH,] „, ■■, :.. ,__-. „j g; ; 4^i%^,i^ytp fe WiLu^oTONi Ist.- j, ' ' =_, P i Somer-typeYagp : Mr/Oi'mtpii d tbroiig ht; ; forward , sold erre^d a paymet)t3. prior, to : the . passing : ■'■ .Cof« : the 'EandVAct 'qt last^yearshoxxlid^Jbe put on ■:. thfe irsaine^footuig-asjland.sold under. that Act, •in dne-tbir.l being devoted to; roads, &a, tj ih the j V,--; district -^This ;resolution .was .referred to the T WaßteiTiands : 4G6mtQittee. k \To-day the Com- ' ; niitteis brought dp' a report endorsuig the a pt.in- ! , ciple:of;MiOrmond's motion, and recommend- ] ing legislation to give effect to it,;- It is under- j stood tKe Attorney General, is drafting and I will introduce a BLort:Bill.to, do this. „ : ] "> Som6 sxiTprise was, excited . :la-t week- at the ! r third reading of the Eleetoial Bill being allowed t»:paßa -without opposition,: after all the talk _ which took place on the.adoption.of the repoit. Itis iuinoured now. that *he Opposition think they have a majority in, the Council against the j Bill as a whole, j and, that a very strong, and j probably successful, eff.»rt will he made to have j the Bill thrown ont there on the second read ihg. r ~lf any such attcinpt should succefd, it j will certainly le«d ; to most serious c implications, and something like a dead- lock. . 7 The debate on the Judicial Commission Bill lasted until neaily one o'clock this morning, when it was a'!jour»ed. Mr Reea made a forcible and etirring speech in favour of the Bill, j and Mr M«>ss a most i*ble and eloquent 0119 ou j the same. side. Mr Whitaker spoke at considerablelength 'against the Bill, and MrTole .made a long speech ic. which he deprecated j limiting the power of the Court, but supported the Bill. To-day the debate was re suined, and Mr Fox spoke very calmly on it, I condemning the conduct of the judges in re . gardto thfr'seutence passed on Mr Barton, but also blaming- "Barhou's- conduct. He, however •oppoaed the BUI as useless, and calculated to { lower'" the status of the judges. Mr 1 Macandrew waimly supported the Bill, v ßaying "he did. so from instinct," and he preferred ■ his common sense instiuct -to the legal cobwebs of tradition in which' the Attorney - General argued. He de- J • nounced the treatment of Mr Barton by the judges as a gross outrage. Dr Hodgkinson supported the Bill, and Mr J. S. Macfarlane ; created great amusement by narrating his own experience in regard to contempt of Court. He- said he -had been several times fined LSO, ■ and on one- occasion .the judge, after perforui--ing a war dauce over, a letter of his, threatened to commit him to prison,; but said he refrained 1 from 1 doing so becausa the: accommodation was isbbad:; that Ja.all these, disputes 'he' was. right and the. judge, wrong, and. he would support • a Bill , to,; limit, the ; judges ~ powers, especially, tha power to gag the P«ees' by-» the power of treating, comments as con-; tempt ; but he thought; the. present Bill was : useleisi), -and he ',would v xiot -,-vote; for. it, -, Sir * .George Grey has now, just concluded a most : eloquent. 'and admirable, speech in support "of the JBill,. from which fae anticipated, great' good, ; and paid a very high cpmplituent. to Mr DeLautour, for whom he predicted, a brillia^ .- future, saying he, deserves the thanlis.of New ,; Zealand tor bringing the "Bill forward, and the admirable way he had done iti ,*. - ",' \ " > ; : Mr DeLautour made a short but very able . speech in reply. . " , The House then divided on the second reading, when the Bill was lost by. 39 to 27. ; ,;, .The division list was as follows :—r V ' ;Ayes, 27/— Messrs Baigerit,Ballance, Barff, J. C. Brown (Tuapeta), Carringtbyj, i>e3Jau. / tour (teller), Dignan, Fisher, S. T. George, Sir , George Grey; HamlinV Hfslop,' HodgMnßon, , ; , Macandrew, Moss (teller), : ;Murray, Nahe, . : O'Rorke, Rees, Reeves, Seaton, Sheehan, ; Swanson, Taiaroa, Tble, and Wallis. ; ;;,■-. Noes, 39. r-^Messrs. Atkinson, ;, Bowen (teller), , Brandon, Bryce, Douglas,' Driver, Mtzroy, ■ Fox, Gibbs, Gisborne, Hobbs, Hunter, Hurstt . house.-Johnston, Kenny, Macfarlane, Manders, M'Lean, Montgomery, rMporhouse, MiirrayAynsleyj " Ormond, Ribhardson, Richmond, : } -Rpllei3ton, Rowe, Sauiiders, 1 Seymour, Stevens, - Stout (teller), Sutton, Tayvhiti, Teschemaker, .Thomson, Turnbull, Wason, Whitaker, Wood, and Woolcock, - ".,'.. ■"-'.' , The postponed clauses of the Land' Tax Bill -.were passed through Committee '' to-day. Mr = Murray tried .to introduce a new clause to appropriate the proceeds of the tax to repaying the Consolidated^ Fund and deficiency in the , .interest .ou public works expenditure in the several Provincial districts. The Chairman,' however, rnledisuch a clause out of order. ! Mr ; Wakefield wanted to introdnce a new clause, providing that leases' fromtße Crownshould be' valued according tp the value of the goodwill, but Mr Stout objected that such, a clause was - out of order,: as be>ng - irreponcileable with the other clauses^oJHihe, Bill abeady passed. The Chairman ., supported, the objection. Mr 'Wakefield intimated his intention of moving . ; - for a recon:mittal of the Bill 011 the third reading, so as to raise the question then. : : - - : — ■»' . • . -.-- : - - :.. :