THE NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR AFFAIRS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4724, 19 July 1890, Page 3

THE NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR AFFAIRS.

(BT TELEGRAPH.) (rSOH OUB OW3f CORWSSFONDEST.) Wkllxsotos, July 18. The now historical advance for the payment of the New Plymouth Harbor Board Interest gave rise to a breezj in the House this afternoon. Mr St»ddon sat the ball rolllag by asking Mr Macarihar, as chairman, of last session's Pabllc Accounts Committee, whether (hat Committee sanctioned the advance, and, if ao, why inch decision was not set down In the records of the Committee's proceeding, as reported to the Hooae. Mr Macirtbur declined to be drawn, seeing that the matter was partly Involved in Mr Hatch!son's charges, which are now being inquired into by a Committee. A general discussion ensued, in the coarse of which it appeared that at the Committee's meeting the " previous question " was affirmed as against a proposal that the advance be not made. From what took place this afternoon, however, there was clearly a mlsnoderstandtng among members of the Committee as to the meaning nf carrying ile"previous question, i Mr Ballancelnformed the Home that the whole of the Committee acquiesced in the making of >he advance, though some of them might have been reluctant, while Meiers Lirnicb and Percival stated that the previous question waa Intended to have only its ordinary meaning, the latter adding that the committee declined to take any responsibility and that the Premier blnuelf took tt* full responsibility.