PARLIAMENTARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1073, 20 July 1880, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

I ■ ; Wellington, 3 p.m House of Representatives. The House met -yesterday at 2.30: In anstver to a question, the Hon. Mr. Bryce stated that the reason Tawhai would not serve on, the West Coast Commission, was because, he wanted an advance of money to pay for a survey he had left going on, and to buy a watch. Tawhai would have been entitled to be paid expenses had he served, but the Government could not give him an advance lest it might be thought..', they "waited, td influence the Commission. All the festiofuthe'i sitting lin IKe afternoon and;, evening was occupied .with,a. debate Qn the. Maori Prisoners' ~TMii -■ '■"•■■■ '• '"■'' •'■'■■•-"-■- — ••' o u - - : - ;i - The Premier . paid ;. a^liigh. J "cpmgliment;,to.:!Miv Sheehan.- . He, ..said, he would always remember ,slr^ Sheehatfs conduct on ' the present occasion. Mr. ' SheeKan had .[risen abdy^r party feeling, and had acted 'in a' truly : patriotic manner, and was indeed the only-^pfttriqt pn that side of the House.' , : ' '.'" v';? \ "' m ° A.little after 1-' o'clock thfe morning the . House divided on the " second reading of the Bill, which was carried by 30 to 14. ' ■" . The House adjourned at 1.15. It ..is expected that" the Public Works Statement will; be made tonight if the report, of the Railway Commission is then ready. „...,. Sir Maurice O'Rorke has recovered, and was in the chair yesterday. George Hunter, formerly member for Wellington, is dangerously ill from a sudden stroke of paralysis.