MONDAY, 5th MARCH.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 6 March 1863, Page 2

MONDAY, sth MARCH.

(Forenoon.) Mr M'Nab took the chair, and opened the sitting with prayer at a quarter past twelve o'clock. Several notices of motion were given. The minutes were read and confirmed. THE JETTY. Mr Calder moved " That this House take into consideration the.report of the Jetty Committee." The report was again read. Mr Calder said the report contained nearly the whole matter without going into details. He objected particularly to the heavy charge of 2s Cd per ton for truckage which he considered would pay well at Is 6d per ton. Competent parties had said that Is per ton was sufficient. Another serious item was 6d per ton on wool exported $nd as each truck carried 27 bales, tha,t made Us 6c) for each truck load. He did pot behleye (Government ever contemplated > making a revenue out of the trucks^ thoiigH if they did there would be (he cdnSolation ■ that it went into

theTeve^bitat^rewn^i^ pocketM pfitq one knd#;Who,'^ Jitter «foine *emark|( 3rafr'j£ti iMriSjfcuaft^ V || |H £ . lg r Mr? Pearson,- on behAlf the'o injfcfrticfc of * theva tr^ckk were paced ther^' by -Q^ %g.feihveniervce'*of ttieifc^bli&J haditcrbe ieyied to pay the them^l*A> 'private arrangement made by one person with seyeiii to do the work, but he gave it jetty keeper took; the matter^ who" "got tbe money "now' he could not say. The Marine 80.-i would'" come" into~existence~Bo(>|i whole system would. ;be remp(fcj the report -was' adopted any j, would have to be temporary, obj action to , Government taking into their hands, or adopt the" «v» the committee, and make the t$ thing else the House thought* good way would be to fix the mte much and put it up to "cojmpetitjg Government need not bother them the working. All these things] done by private enterprise, and tin ment, instead of being found found fault with, othets, which agreeable. • " • After a general conversation! tions of the report were adopted. BLUFS KAILWAT SIU.I This ordinance was read a third passed the House. LOAK ORDINANCE, 1863, The Provincial Treasurer said consideration he found some deff bill, and asked leave to withdraw! Leave granted. APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE, No, The House went into commit! bill. '."" ; The preamble was considered some explanations from the Prorii surer, „-.,. The House resumed. 1 Mr Pearson asked leave that t>< debate on raising the price of ]J journed till the evening: Leave granted. ... Some notices of motion were gin The House adjourned at ten oj one o'clock. EVENING SITTING, Mr M'Nab took the Chair at 10 tuj o'clock. Mr Jamei Wilson asked the " hos, the head of the Executive, whetherjthci is prepared to irri mediately establish steam lug ssrrice for the Ports of th. New Eiver Harbors." This should done long before now, and considering haps that had happened, it was highlj Mr Howell would like to see thii He believed a steam tug of more imps a steam railway, though lie had neveti Mr Pearson replied that governing prepared to place a tug on these present, ile knew that .complaints made against the Aphrasia, but in aces the opinion expressed by themercaol nity, she wa3 contracted with for sii attc nd the coasting trade and make ths a secondary i consideration. Governa f.inds, and none were on the estimi service, which at present could not pt rush taking place, it might pay, but t! enterprise would set in. • Mr W. Stuart asked the Governma b en done by Government in the mi telegraph from Bluff to Mataura. Mr Pearson in reply, said that the ( had been in correspondence vnth the! vernraenfc on the subjret, and the \ that an engineer would be appointed, tend the entire line throughout the isli that officer's appointment, which waj I a proposition for a telegreolph on anei had hacn. submitted to him. The diffe that buses in the ground were usediustt and where the litter were liable to be \ might be an advantage, but they could on with the work without the GencralG This was a colonial matter, not a Frc Mr Tarlton moved, "In the eventd directed effort being made before the v of this Council, for the purchase anl ment of a Fire Engine by the inhabit town of InTercargill.this Council wi!l,| at the next session, authorise any re« the Government may please to give supp! to such an undertaking." Mr Cowan seconded the notion. After some discussion, in the course* was suggested that the "undertaking done solely by public subscription, the agreed to. . . The Provincial Treasurer moved ti bring in a bill intituled anOrdinanceti the raising of a loan of £140,000 to del pense of constructing a- railway betweei ELarbor and the town of Invercargill, Works connected therewith, in the I Southland. Leave granted .- -• - - The standing orrteri were suspend! B ill read a first and second time. The House went into Committee, Bill was passed without discussion. The House resumed, and the third i pointed for to-morrow morning's sittii The Provincial Treasurer moved fe bring in a bill to amend the Sheep 1862. Leave given, the Bill to be read at morning's sitting. , In reply to a question from Mr Sti sated that the amendments were tho; at a recent meeting of run holders. The Appropriation Ordinance, Vt passed through eommitte, and the tli appointed for to-morrow morning* gift The adjourned debate on raising t! land, was then resumed. . After discui lasted an hour and a half, in the court Appeared that government might h majority; the motion lapsed, a moti journrnent being carried. The House accordingly adjourned at past ten.