PARLIAMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 4029, 3 September 1898, Page 2

PARLIAMENT

• J LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. r Friday, September 2. The Council met at 2.30. , IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. c The Immigration Bestriotion Bill was . introduced by the Minister for Educa- ■ tion, and read a first time. 3 ADVANCES TO SBTTLEBS. ' I The third reading was agreed to. The Council rose at 4.15. I f HOUSE OF BEPBESENTATIVES. I Friday, September 2. The House sat at 2.30 > ' MAPS IN HANSARD. ■ The Depty-Speaker intimated that he r took the resolution arrived at by the I House respecting the publication of a ' map with Hansard applied only to the b map produced by the Hon. J. MoKenzie > and he had therefore instructed the > Hansard supervisor not to publish maps • of Bushy Park and the Hororata Estates II produced in debate by the members. STEAM SBRVIOB. I The Wellington and Lyttelton Steam 1 Servioe Committee reported in favour ! of a faster and more punctual service between the two places and the alteration of the railway time-table in order to fit in with the arrival of steamers. Mr Seddon moved that consideration of the report be taken as Government business on Thursday. Agreed to. SICKNESS OF A MINISTER. • In asking that questions ou the Order Paper be postponed, Mr Seddon re- ' gretted to say that the Minister of > Lands, owing to illness, was unable to > be in his place, and his ° attendant considered he must remain in 1 bed for some little time. [" HANSARD AGAIN. 1 Captain Russell moved that a breach » of privilege had been committed by, Mr • Seddon by the insertion in Hansard No. 14 of a large mass of statistical tables which he had not read to the House. A lengthy discussion ensued, and 1 ultimately the motion was ruled out of : order. , SLAUGHTERING BILL. , The Slaughtering and Inspection Bill was read a second time pro forma. OLD AGE PENSIONS. 3 This bill was debated at considerable length on the motion for second reading.

The speakers were the Premier, Capt. Eussell, Messrs Morrison, Kolleston, Stevens, Carnoross, Duthie, J. Hutcheson, Gillfedder, Tanner, Kelly and , Hogg. I The debate was continued. \ On the motion of Mr Lethbridge the I debate was adjourned and the House , rose at 12.10.