PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 107, 29 August 1896, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

IN HOUGE AND COUNCIL,

[By Telegraph]

(From our Special Correspondent.) Wellington, This day. The Council has shelved the Police Offences Act Amendment Bill which was designed to prevent the dehorning of cattle by any painful operation. A ruling will be given on Tuesday whether the Chairman of Committee decided correctly in holding that the clause in the Asiatic Restriction Bill fixing the poll-tax at £IOO was a money clause and could not be amended. The Council added to the Hon Mr Bolt's Summary Separation Bill a new clause making the measure applicable to married women as well as married men, after which it was recommitted and its short title altered to " Married Persons Summary .Separation Bill." The third reading of the measure was fixed for Tuesday next. The Minister of Education says that the new Mount Cook gaol will be opened shortly for the reception of prisoners. The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill (introduced in the Lower House by Mr Buick), giving defaulters the right to vote immediately on paying rates, was put through Committee without amendment and passed its final stages. After the Hon Mr Bolt had moved the second reading of his Female Law Practioners Bill, The Hon Mr McLean again raised his prt)test to it, and moved that the debate be adjourned, which was negatived by 16 to 8, and the second reading was agreed to on the voices. The second reading of the Criminal Code Amendment Bill, which seeks to give the convict Chemis leave to appeal for a new trial, was after much debate adjourned till Wednesday. As the outcome of cases recently heard in Auckland, Mr W. Hutchison has given notice to ask the Premier whether, considering the large stake the colony holds in the Bank of New Zealand, Government cannot intervene in some form to put a stop to the public scandal of pressing for payment of calls from shareholders who have not the means of paying these calls.