DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT.
Mr Thomson asked whether it was the intention of the Government during the present session to introduce any measure for the amendment of the laws affecting debtors and creditors in the colony. He then proceeded to give instances of the ineffectiveness of the present Act.
The Hon. hie Attorney-Genebai. stated that it wa3 not the intention of the Government to do so, for two reasons; first, to some of the queries he had sent throughout the colony to persons and bodies interested in the matter he had not received answers, and many of the answers he had received coming in so late ; second, an Act was about to be brought into the Imperial Parliament which would probably be based on different principles from, which most of the insolvent laws sprung. He thought it would be presumption on the part of the Legislature of New Zealand to adopt radically different principles in the face of the second reason he had given. From the replies he had received he gathered that the working of the present Act, which was so much objected to, could be easily altered by the machinery in existence. The answers to his circulars would shortly lay upon the table of the House. BILL TO LIMIT TILE " NEW PROVINCES ACT, 1858."
The Hon. the Pkemiee asked leave to bring in a Bill for limiting the operation: of the New Piovinces Act, 1858. He believed the numbers for and against the repeal of that Act were almost equal. In a previous session he had moved certain resolutions to give self-government to districts, and also to give a portion of the land revenue. In a later session his honorable friend the member for Timaru had moved similar resolutions, if not exactly the same, ("res.") Being in the Government now he thought it his duty to take action on what he had before proposed when ia 1 the opposition. The Government left, to
a considerable extent, to the Provinces the power of granting that sflf-govemment by the institution of municipal councils. If the Bill had not the desired effect, he was prepared to go further next Session. He thought, however, it was sufficient for a first?!-,.
Leav > -as •r''"" r d. The Bill wis lead a first time, ivuYred in be p-iuttd, and the second ruv:v y ttpnicnted for Tuesday ntxt. THE EIGHTS OF ABORIGINAL NATIVES
The Hon. the Premier moved — "For leave to brinu in a Bill fordeclaring certain rights of the aboriginal Natives of New Zealand, and for enabling the Governor to appoint a Commission for certain purposes." He would say but little then. The second part of the Bill was to appoint a Commission to enquire into and suggest the best mode of giving the franchise and other political rights of British subjects to the natives. He did not suppose that the broad principle that both races of her Majesty's subjects should have the same rights would be disputed, though he expected considerable difference of opinion as to the mode of allowing those rights. The object of the bill was to get information, and for that purpose the Government had considered a commission the best means.
Leave wa< granted to bring in the bill, which was then read a first time and ordered to be printed. The second reading was appointed for Tuesday.
After sundry other motions the House adjourned till the usual hour on Tuesday, Ist August.
DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT.
Otago Witness, Issue 714, 5 August 1865, Page 8
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