TELEGRAMS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 612, 25 June 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

I PARLIAMENTARY. ! (From dufown correspondent.) '•' '•'■ Wellington. The Licensing Fees were discussed last night. A motion by Mr Bastings to reduce publicans', licenses to ten o'clock from £4O to £3O in Boroughs, was lost on a division. Mr de Lautoiir moved to strike out the £3O fee, proposed for houses outside Boroughs, which was accidentally declared car. ried before a division was called for. A motion was then made to insert £2O, which was lost. It was then proposed to insert " not exceeding," in order to give discretion to the Bench up to £36\ This was lost. Mr Bbwen then pro. posed £29, "wjiich , the Government supported. It was lost by one vote. Ultimately £25 was fixed. An amendment was carried the day previous to compel country houses to have six rooms for travellers. This will be reopened. A special clause to provide accommodation in licensed houses in remote districts, on easier terms, has been given notice of. ' The Premier stated yesterday that the Representation Bill will be brought down as early as possible. , The Otago Runs Question will be referred to a Special Committee, representative of all interests. , This is preferable, as the Waste Lands Committee is not representative of mining interest. Dr Menzies, and Messrs de Lautour, and Bastings waited yesterday on the Minister of Education, to urge that the support of the Government should be given to a measure to make primary Educational reserves in Stratb-Taieri, Waikaia, and Southland, available for settlement under the Waste Land Laws. The matter is to be laid before the Cabinet.