PARLIAMENT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 216, 17 October 1894, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Legislative Council. Wellington, This Lay. In the Legislative Council tho Trustees Art Amendment Bill, Stamp Act Amend ment Bill, Water Supply Act Amendment Bill. Abbaioi* and Slaughterhouses Bill, Public Work* Hill. Lairv Industry Bill were committed, rund a third time, and passed. House of Representatives. i The House resumed at 2.60. The debate on the second reading of the ■■ Midland Railway Bill was continued, i Sir Robert Stout, spoke strongly against j ] the Bill, and said sven if tho Company got j i £6IH,()00 they would soon want more con i ! cessions. Mr Graham also opposed tins Bill, and ■ protested against Nelaon being thrown out. I Captain Russell said it w;» evident the ; Company did not sufficient, capita) for the eonstruction of the line, and would I not therefore have a case to go to tho law court on. I Mr Reever suid unless the.Bill passed :he line would have to be abandoned, which would be a groat injustice, j»ar * tieiihuly to Canterbury. Messrs Buchanan, Thus. McKenzie, Hone Heko, and Allen opposed the Bill, and Mr Bel! supported it. Tho debate was interrupted by the 5.60 adjournment. 1 ho House resumed at 7.50. After further debate, occupying the whole of tho evening, a motion for tho "frond reading of the Midland Railway on trad Hill wan lost hy 62 to 26, the Bill thus boing thrown out. The House rose at 12.10 a.m. Mr (’bin 'I iiu-, general n<>n k«''pei, has