PARLIAMENTARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 180, 6 July 1883, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

WEDNESDAY'S SITTING.

The Impounding Bill read a second time and referred to Committee. The Tenants Fixtures BUI passed through Committee a proviso being added thatsecurity shall ba given by the tenant, if demanded by the landlord be« fore fixtures be removed. The Arms Act will be repeated, it is hoped. v within a couple of yeara. Several huge petitions were received adverse to ejection licensing benches. The Colonial Treasurer said the Government did not see their way at present to alter the law as to compensation for fires kindled by railway engines. (BY 'XKLEGRAPH.j (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington; Tois Day. After the usual adjournment a dis« cassion on tlis Bankruptcy Bill was continued. In clause 43 the words " three days" were altered to fire days, and clause 45 by reqai.in^ a debtor t> file m the district whish he had resided or carried on busin -S3 for the greater part of the preceding six months / On a division of 38 to 4 fixing thai minimum debt lor which a debtor c>u!d > ba adjuiged bankrupt on petitijn, £50 * was iusortel m place of £25. j J Clause 56 waa amended by m<ik ng the debtors property ve3tin an as gntl immediately on his preseatf.ig pet. 0 . ,v. Clause 57 ta 59 inelasive passed, and progress wat» reported and the floaaa rose at 12.20.