SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. PARLIAMENTARY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2452, 7 October 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. PARLIAMENTARY.

BOUNDAUY OF TAUANAKI COUNTY TO """" ~)ni"AT OI^NAKB.' ' - " n4l *" > " *" ~~ ' tokppLi&(rM/AcPTik£mi\L state- . - . . ... ][Ellt/» MMM .r- « MOTION YOU KEOOenON OF OKFIt(: , . ; ClAl^^A^VU^.f „„,. "*■ "tt' 4 ltoM OUR O^N'CORKK^fO^b^^ hll Fbiday t Evening.— Tl|o,,ppup4ics , ißill , has been recommitted mid', passca through com* mittco to-day. Since the Otngo party were dcfoatcd ; in making Otngo one, .counly, ;the bill met with lifllo opjkisition, 'and it is tcry nigniOcnut that notlnvitbstanding the return of Mr. Stout no factious stand h being inadu pu any Government measure. Tho boundaries oC tho. Countica in Taranaki wero settled botween tjic membera outof;tho HOIIBO by fixing tho boundary at tho Tnnuniarn Kiver, about three miles north of Opunako, a*, a compromise, aud to avoid differences of opinionin the Ilouac. ■ . „ Sir Cfcprgo Grey occupied' most part of Thursday afternoon by bringing on a debate without notioo reepcQtiug thu gtatcrnont, made by the Premier that tho opinion of tho Law Officers of tho C/own< in-Kngjaud had been given pn tho Abolition of Provinces Bill. He asked thnt the correspondence be produced. MajornAtkhw' 1 ( re Ph 1«d1 «d that there .wn& no correspondpn.ee. and that thVAjct, wns ; k'ft, t^ it« opyrnUon by hoc Majesty,, after" taking tho usual advice Sir Ocorgo Grey then* moved the adjourpmcnfcof tho House, and » debate ensued in which Vomo very- tall talk wm indulged in bjr.Sir, Qcorgo Grey and Mr. Stout. Mr.-Whi»ftk«r reviewed the whole case, and gavo it ns his delilwrotc opinion thnt the Act was not JtUra vires'. NoV thnt 'tho provincial qtieJttlon'hl nlmcft sottlod tho Otago members nro ; 'returning' -"'to thefr hdnnnl^ condition of intcrprovlncial antagonism.. . • ' . Tho Dunedin Drill Sheds Bill and the bnmftru'Tr'ftmMy Bill occwloded close fight* ing between' tUoOtngo momben, to the great delight of tho lookers-on, who, with tho exception of Mr. Recs, did not interfere, but Blfewett'tndTMo'rriecinoiwnrfaro'to be com tinned. But itMs iniposeiMo'fOT'Mr. Kcos to bo an idl« spoctntor of a row political, no *h^ volunteered for the S6caMoh, v att<rije fenUHCd for tho time nn OtagO combinatiop. Thcso small incidenU show that >ttnr blockade is broken up, ; rtriu 1 thHr'fe'iison is again beginning to 'resume her wonted sway in tho minlli of/tlw-Otngo/oproiontativos.; t „ I w(sh J. could »ay; iho. s'ftnVe'W, Sjr 1 Ocorgo droy, but his nn'fngonlsm is of /opc i ri'n>ncnt a typo that it will contiuuo so long as ho can drag behind Jiim tho very, shred ot n tail.. , MftJQP.Atkinsort'innkes'hte fiijaucinl meni this evening, tt V anticipated tham jopnflidorabl^reducll'oi) of expenditure will be ! mndc. . ",'.'. „ A prlvatd' member is oxpcoletf to' move, " That all salaries over £250 bc'rcduccd, on' All thpso pvor (hnt amount at t}»o into of 25 per cent." I'his'is to include Ministers, .Judges, nud'all whb'n'ro pnid iiudcr permanent appro- j priation. . . , „ . - The bill brought in to rop&A tho New Zealand Forest '^ot, 1 1874; by Mr. Macfarlanc, was carried by, a largo "majority. , Tho Government'offorird'but feiiblo'*op|W3ltion. It rofunds to tho Consolidated .Fund «omo £20,000,' which 1 havo noMoubt t\ lit prove very useful to the Government, '<■ ' j'n.;"r ' '' '■ i' v '1 ■! 1