NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday Evening, October 4. — The following Bills were read a second time — Public Libraries Dill, Dunedin Town Hall Site Bill, Christchurch District Drainage Bill, Southlaud Agricultural and Pastoral Associatiou Bill. Tho Native Lands Aofe Amendment Bill was read a second time, aud referred to Native Affairs Committee. ■ Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill, Auckland College and Grammar School j Bill, Dunedin Gas and Waterworks Bill passed the remaining stages in Committee of the wholo House. Mr. Kelly moved an address to the Governor to have £2,000 placed on the estimates' as a grant in aid to Agricultural and Pastoral Societies. Mr. Fox desired to move an addition of j £100, as a grant to Temperance and Teototal Societies, to enable them to hold an annual j Colonial Convention to promote the cause. The CHAIRMAN, ruled this amendment irrc-' gular. -After a clisciission, the original motion was lost' by 33 i 6i 6 25. On Mr. Bastings motion an address was agreed to, prayiug that public lands to tho value of £50,000, in suitablo blocks as near the railway as possible, bo set apart for construction of railway at T:ipaoui to Paipahi , such lands not to be sold till after the railway was made. Mr. LARNAcrfs motion for an address to the^Governor for £1,000 for reruoviug rocks at tho entrance of Catliu's River, was also agreed to. -The House rose at 12.45 p.m. Friday, October s.— The Houso met at 2.30 p.m. The Wnste'Lands Committee reported the Settlements Works Advances Bill, and recommepded that it be not passed. j^ discussion arose on tho Disqualification Committee's report on Mr. Kennedy's case. . Mr. Whitaker said ho was agreeable to adppt the wholo report. "V#i". Rees thought Mr. Kennedy had forfejtjcd bis seat, aud moved that ho bo dis- i qualified. . - •sfhis was lost by 4G to 16. - .Mr. Rolleston proposed that Mr. Kennedy bepalled to the bar of the House and reprimanded, but this was negatived ou tho voices, a_nd the report adopted. • In Committee ou the Wast Lands Bill Mr. DeLatouk moved to omit provisions for members of Waste Lauds Boards lining nominated by tho Governor, which was lost by 43 against 30. Mr. Fox brought up tho report of the Privileges Committee on Mr. Lusk'a case. It was to the effect that Mr. Lusk received £50 from the Corporation of Aucklaud for services rendered prior to and during the sessiou of 1876, in respect to the' Auckland Corporation and Waterworks Bills, and that curtain clauses of the former Bill, which tho Corpo ration of Auckland desired to havo passed, were passed through his exertions, had been accepted by the Government, aud embodied in 'tho Municipal Corporations Act. Report and evidence were ordered to bo priutcd. |