TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 38, 13 August 1895, Page 3

TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

* HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THE BANK OF NXW ZKAIiAND AND THB IBTATBS COMPANT. The Premier gave notice of his in- £ tention to move on Thursday next—" That £ a Seleot Committee of six members be ■*■ appointed, with power to confer with a any Committee appointed by the ' Legislative Council, to examine into * and report upon the Bank of New Zealand J Estates Company and its relation to the b Bank of New Zealand; to enquire how in ?' the colony's interest the two iusti- *' tutions can best be separated, and how 81 th«i earning power of the Bank of New 23 Zealand can be inoreased, its stability en- a sured, and its usefulness extended; the §J committee to report within a week, and *» to oocsist of Captain Bussell, Sir Eobert " Stout, tto Hen. Mr. Ward, the Hon. J. v M'Kenrie, Mr. Buohanan, and the mover." f" Mr. T. Maokenzie gave notice to move .. that the Standing Orders be amended to *L' abolish the time limit in Finanoial and ~ Want-of-Confidence debates. }? Th« Minister for Lands gave notice of a '" Bill to regulate the mannfaotnre and eale of SI margarine. < »• Mr. Bell gave notice to ask whether the °* Colonial Treasurer or Agent-General had °_j arranged for-the publication of Mr. Ward's °| Chamber of Commerce speech in the British « Australasian, and for the. supply of a y' number of copies of same for circulation to '" members; ana what was the nature of suoh *? arrangement. ~ Mr. Ward gave notice to ask where Mr. M Bell procured the information for thia question, and whether it was from Mr. ™ Dnthie. P1 A vote of thanks was passed to Sir John Hall for his gift of a portrait of Her °c Majesty, which, the Premier said, "filled C< • long felt want." It would be hung in the _ lobby. Ti ILeftaitting.J g