PARLIAMENTARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 954, 19 November 1879, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

[By Telegraph.]

[from oub own correspondent.] [The following telegrams were crowded out of our issue of yesterday] — WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The House met yesterday evening at 7.30, and an Imprest Supply Bill for £150,000, was passed through all its stages. Major Atkinson then delivered his Financial Statement. On his moving the resolutions imposing the new duties, debate ensued. Mr Macandrew said that m agreeing to the resolution, it was not to be understood that the House was committed to the proposals. He was not prepared for the enormous taxation proposed by the Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, still he would not at present offer any active opposition. Sir George Grey said that the present Government was returned to get rid of the Land Tax, and were put into office by the Bank of New Zealand, added by the Legislative Council and the great landed interests, for the purpose of getting rid of that tax. He denied that it was necessary to limit the expenditure on Public Works. If they wished to practice retrenchment, let them get rid of the Agent-General's Department. He counselled the House to refuse supplies until the readjustment of representation was provided foi\ Mr Reader Wood said it was a misrepresentation to say that the Land Tax was to be done away with by the proposals before the House. The tax was to be doubled, and included with it other property that was also to be taxed. Mr Moss characterised the proposal as the most cold-blooded he had ever listened to. The burden would be £30 per head at a time, when everywhere it was hard and difficult to live. The resolution was then carried, and the House adjourned at 11.30. This Day. In the Legislative Council yesterday an Imprest Supply Bill for £250,000 passed through all its stages. The Triennial Parliaments Bill was read a second time. Henare Tomoana introduced a Bill to amend the Maori Representation Act. The Registration of Eelectors Bill was further considered m Committee, when clause 19 was amended so as to provide that persons objecting to names on the rolls should deposit £12, the proviso not to apply to the Returning Officers. An additional clause was passed, providing for tha transfer of Electors names from the roll of one district to that of another m case of removal. \ The Bill was then reported. The House went into Committee on Regulation of Electors Bill. A number of clauses were passed with amendments, and progress was reported with leave to sit again. The House rose at 12.30. Very little is said about the Financial Statement, but members seem staggered by the proposals. There is evidently much dissatisfaction, but no one is able to propose anything better. It is understood that Ministers are willing to accept amendments or modifitions of a reasonable character. Yesterday the Native Affairs Committee had Rira Noinoi under examination m the case against Mr. Sutton. She is daughter of the late Paora Noinoi, from whom Sutton obtained the land about which the dispute it raised.