THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

North Otago Times, 17 August 1865, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The folio* iug Bills are at present before the House of Representatives :— 1. To latify agreements made by the Government for the Panama Service, and to empower further modifications up to a certain limit of cost. 2. To limit the operation of the New Provinces Act. 3. To prevent small cases being taken into the Supreme Court. 4. To appoint a Commission to inquire into the quostiou of Maori franchise. 5. To improve the method of Auditing and Publishing the Public Accounts of the Colony. 6. To amend the Marine Boards Act by abolishing the Marine Board. 7. To amend the Goldfields Act, as to the practice or the coait and water-rights. 8. To contiuue fcbe In ew Zealand Settlements Act, known as the " Confiscation Act," till the 3rd December, 18G7, and to amend it. 9. To compel the Registiation of Crown Grant* under the Land Registry Act. 10. To do justice between Masters and Servants. 31. To render "unlimited" the liability of shareholders in a "limited' bank, up to the amount of its note issue. 12. To give a power of altering proclamation* under the Diseased Cattle Act. 13. To provide for the repretentation of the miuers on the West Coast, in the Canterbury Council. 14 To " secure, regulate, and consolidate" provincial loans. Besidek the above list, there ire pionuecd— A Loan Act Appropriation, or Allocation between tho Noithern Piovincet. Bill. A Maori Land Law. An English Companies' Business EUL A Repiebentation Bill. The correspondent of the "Lyttelton Time*," writing under date "Wednesday, 8th Augvut, 1,30. p.m.," " i. meeting of the Middle Island members of both Houses tu held to day, to consider financial questions bearing upon the Southern Province*. With regard to the allocation of the three million loan, it wm deter* mined that in thi* session there must be a complete account obtained of its expenditure, and a final allocation arrived »t between the North and Middle Islands. "General opinion* were exprcsced that extra taxation was most objectionable, but the meeting contented itself with affirming that ihe allocation of the debt raurt be made before «ven considering fre*n taxation in any A» to th« Provincial Loan*, time did not admit of •mbject being fully diicusatd, but it waa determined • ask this Government to poitpone the*e measures' order to «»t proposals of policy aubmitted by a f uta. sa«e*i9£. ''

A Kite M«ich Utveen 10 men each of tho "Wert Tweri B»nf er» »nd the East Taieri Bifle Company, h» resulted in faror of the former by fifteen pointo. A* the conclusion of the match, Captain Thomson and Lieutenant Tulton, in name of the members of the "Wcrt Taieri Bangers, presented Drill-Instructor Stevens with, a purs* containing £20, in token of their appreciation ol the lerricet which be hoj rendered to the Company.