PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Mataura Ensign, Volume VI, Issue 285, 31 August 1883, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

(FRO Al OUR OWN REPORTER.)

Wellington, August 30.

Prcoeedings to-day were of a very tame and uninteresting nature, most of the afternoon being devoted to questions of purely local interest, anrl another argument in favor of some better system of local self-govern-ment. It is degrading to the dignity of a Parliament tp qccupy so much time in transacting parish business.

In the Council this afternoon it was decided upon J;he motlq-q of the Premier to give Gp. yernnjeut tjusines§ prepecjence. during t^e re-, maindgr of tlje gessipn. The ClouttQil WiU throw out the Native ~ 4 Bill, l»MlK)?4 by Land Laws Amendment . --•-.. » Mr Bryce. Itis rumored too, that the Lanu Act Amendment Bill will be deprived of its best points, and tfcsj,t the Abolition of Gold Duty Bill will be ttyrfliyqi flH*/ The General Assembly Payment 9f itejftr bers' Bill, will not meet the same fate in jthe Upper House, as, being $ i^oney bill, the Councill cannot make any amendment.

The Dist-ricjt Railway Act Amendment Bill was circulated tlrff eyeing. By its provisions the Waimea Plains $a*ilw#y 'jCntnppy (Limited) and the Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Railway Company (Limited) are empowered on direction of the Ministry to make, levy, and collect a rate for the year ending the 31st March, }B.B£, and to receive the proportion of guaranteed intere^ fpr the same year payable by the Oovejrnracu-t.