POLITICAL ITEMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 749, 4 September 1878, Page 2

POLITICAL ITEMS.

[froji our own correspondent.] Wellington, Sept. 4There was a very warm discussion in the Legislative Council yesterday on the motion to go into Committee on the Oamaru Waterworks Bill, which was very nearly being thrown out, as the Mayor's i X|>lanation was deeni"d unsatisfactory. ' Sonin nii-mliers stat>.d that the prospectus issued in Loiidnn was fraudulent. Mr. Wati-rlionse ni'Vi'd 11 at the Biii s : hmi d be ■.h:it fhiy s x nvmhs. S .old oi:-:;'. ; in>..;oy Uil'U-i I I f:Jse ]>!■«- tuiiC--S. Aft.i-r the. motion ha i j i.nii o r-i ■! to o::iv 'ii w,-.i-,l " now,'" i . the motion ttiox t:io vJuuucii Jiutv go i^- 0 OouninDt'-e on the B.li, and before the question was put for inserting the words "'six months," the members for the district saw Sir Dillon Bell, one of the strongest opponents of the measure, and represented that it would be ruinous to I debenture holders and the town if the Bill were not passed in some form, :is the notion that the money was obtainable under the Municipal C >rporatioiis Act of 1876 was erroneous. Tu° y succeeded in yetting him the -adjournment of the debate, which was carried, with a view to passing an Act giving the Corporation power to borrow money after consulting the ratepayers, as r quired by the Act of 1876. The Hon. R. Campbell atrongly opposed the Bill. The Hon. H. J. Miller is working splendidly for the town.