EVENING SITTING.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5543, 21 November 1879, Page 2

EVENING SITTING.

The House resumed at 7! 30 .p.m.: '. SECOND READINGS. . "'], t ..f[ l J " "' The following bills were read a second time : — Palmerston North -Reserves Bill ; - Regulation of Dogs Bill';' ! Auckland Harbor Board Bill ; Canterbury ' Rivers Act, 1870, Amendment Bill,; Municipal" 5 Corporations Act; 1876, Amendnient^Billl Maori Members Election -Validation' Bill • Napier and Meanee Recreation Ground f; Bill ; Counties Act . Amendment Bill ; Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Aqt n Amendment Bill j,. Width of Roads and Streets Bill. ' ■ ■■■- . „ „ . • .- v PREVENTION OF 'CORRUPTION BILL; ' ! Sir George Grey moved the second reading of the Prevention of Corruption,. Bill, ! Mr Hall said that while' tie' would not oppose the motion he did not{ think:' thebill was required. In committee hsfw'Micl '-\ move certain amendments; .'••••? "^ irj-.lT.ik^ The motion "was put and oarrie^off'tb'e"*" voices. • - ' " '• '■• "' f ' v.'< v-.-f v... i':sJ ■ ■ PROXECXIONTOJSTATIVEyDriixJST^^S.',,''.^ The question that his jßkoellenQy;. ' the Governor .should... -be .jmqv^d to issue a commission to evidence afc 'the; principal, commercial ; oentrjesj'of : New Zealand, and to report upon* the operation of the present tariff with a view to such readjustment of Customs duties as inay;be considered best calculated to if offter the various branches of, industry- now Established within the colony, was put to the * vote, and negatived on the voices* [ '■** THE WANGANTJI ENDOWED SCHOOL. On the motion for going intp committee . on the Wanganui endowed school' a lengthened discussion arose. The opposition given to the measure grounded on the fact that the trust in that as well as in many other ; similar oases had been, abused, arid that therefore Me 'bi^Kshould be dropped, and a more c^mpi'ehenßiye-'.' measure introduced dealing with ii:: the-" 1 whole subject; of those trusts;,-, .a n- : : ',,../ ' Mr Montgomery pointed .outl.ihat it,'. cost £35 per head for educating- children in the school in question/ i'ahd-that it was ;i an abuse of the. trust which 'iafpressly stipulated that the ' ehdp'wm^rt^ waß granted' for educating ppor.'ano!,. Orphan v children .residing in the district. Ai The' bill required amendment, still it should not be thrown out, and,' ;ihajb?-reasbn " he would support the motion lor going into committee. -„,<; v;; -• •-. ! r „ Mr Ballance said that the [whole^bjebM i of. the' bill was to. get the trqst .placed^pii^ proper footing. The trustees too^jp" the« position- that, the trust had.not been ful-,y filled because it was jmpqssii)le;to.do;sp,i and they proposed to take the matter into Court. with (the view of getting ,the; trust itself modified. In that base the property would be fritted 1 away to ho' beneficial purpose. In committee he would agree to any reasonable amendment . that might be proposed. The House divided on the motion for going into committee— Ayes, 37; noes, 25. The motion was therefore carried. In committee, Mr Hatnlin moved that progress be reported md leave asked sit again. V . . / . " On a division, the ayes were 25, and the noes 31. , . „ The bill was contested word by word, a division being called for each. Eventually it was agreed to pass the. first' three clauses. Progress was then repor&d, and leave asked to sit again presently. \ MINING ACTS; - The Mining Companies Act,. l&T2i " Amendment Bill, and the.Mines Adt, 1877; Amendment Bill, were reported, and the former was read a third time and passed. WANGANUI ENDOWED SCHOOL; ' J The House then went again into committe on tho Wanganui Endowed' lSchbpl Bill. . The .opposition was again repeated, . and was being continned when bur message was despatched at 12.30 dim. ' J "' J