PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 300, 12 September 1908, Page 7

PARLIAMENT.

TflE ARBITRATION BILL. MANAWATU RAILWAY PURCHASE, THE BILL DISCUSSED. SECOND BALLOT -BILL. , -The .Legisiativo'' ;Couacil ' = sat '' ' yesterday afternoon and .evening,-" devoting--five hours and a'half, to the debato oil, t-lio Second Ballot Bill. The Bill was read a; second time, but not without strong protests against certain 'clauses. ■ • * Until nearly four o'clock-' the House • was- occupiod in a discussion, raised-by Mr. Bllj on the danger the nat-ivo'pigeons were under of extermination by the indiscriminate slaughter that'had been going oil, specific instances of which were" supplied.'Subsequently; tho now Dairy Regulations were laid upon the Table of .tho Houso. and briefly discussed,','after which- Mr.- Tanner, chairman., of tho Labour Bills -Committee, -presented - the. -Industrial Conciliation anil Arbitration Act Amendment ■ tho.report and' apiendmentsjof the committee. .Tho Minister indicated that tho: second' reading debate';bri the Bill would 'take place ,'soino .timo mext : weak. • .t ; , : The" second reading of the Wellington ' and Manawatu Railway Purchase Bill; was taken before dinner. ' The 'Prime .'Minister submitted facts, regarding tho, purchase of the line, and the basis of negotiation. The debato on; the Bill tlien became -goners! ' arid was concluded at the evening .sitting by the carrying'of the second reading on the voices. «• Government measures of less-interest occupied' tho -House -until its adjournment,' half' en liour after midnight., , , • '.