PARLIAMETARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 267, 8 October 1875, Page 2

PARLIAMETARY.

-'- Wem.ington, Thursday. £_«,.-£!» House resumed at 2*30 p.m. Me Government told Mr O'Neil that they j- to give effect to the recommendation \1 of the Ohineojuri Miners 1 Bights Committee p^^gwdiug giving £150 to Adam Porter. V" ' The Houfe did not agree wi&the Legislative Council amendments in tuefcoldtialds 3/ . Act Amendment BUI. T „ ... :*A ion; discussion ensued-upcn the iiouse going into Committee on Mr Krid'a Employment of Females Act Amendment BUI. ■/. ■iy Mr Brsdshaw protested strougiy against " A .the BjlC being proceeded with. >; ,.',.'-; Mr Reid explained that he desired to amend *;.. the Bill to secure one of two alternatives, ,/ usmely, ip word, the Bill ?o as to permit i.: .women, and children to work ten hours a day ' in woollen or cloth factories, or else to permit •, ' of the employees in each places goiog to J ; jwork at sixain the morning, and allowing -"^ theni to work as late as nine o'clock at night, a,- .so aa.to eaable ths Mosgiel Woollen /Factory to employ two shitta of seven hou/s each in , the twenty-four. In committee, the Bill was amended so as i to permit women and children going to work at six in the morning, and to work not later than six at night. : ■.'■■i - Sit Cracroft Wilaon mo7ed w amendment to the effect tint Mr Reid's Act should not , '. apply 1 to saleswomen and milliner?, but ttie i ■■: term *' milliner*" was rejected on a motion of Mr Bowen'a, and the Act made to apply to aa'eiwomen alone. . The House rose at 5*30. ~< - ' Friday. . „; The H6ase met at 7-30 last night Sir Geo. Grey's Gold Mining Districts Act Amendmeat Bill wag read the second time. ; The Cofoners Act Amendment Bill was £-•'-. read. the aecond time on the understand ng that it would not be proceeded farther with . V?th6 aeesion. . •0p.;&-Mx^&.tQa,'(i Mftori Representation Act ? ATBendment Bill was thrown out by 20 to 17. C ; T^o4i?e Mioiatee opposed the Bill.