PARLIAMENTARY. » GENEEAIi ASSEMBLY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7118, 16 July 1886, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

» GENEEAIi ASSEMBLY OF NEW ZEALAND.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [per united press association.] On resuming, the Speaker informed Mr. Brown that the New Zealand Note Currency Bill introduced by him could not be allowed to procerd, aa it proposed to deal with the issue of notes amounting to four millions of money, and the Government had the entire control of such matters The Salmon and Tiout Act Amendment Bill was passed. On the Hawkers and Pedlars Bill bein^ committed, attention was called to the thin state of the House, and the bell hid to be rung twice to prevent a count out. The bill passed, with the addition of some new clauses. On the motion for the third readingr, after some discussion, the bill was thrown out by 2G to 21. Mr. Reid moved tho second reading of the Employers' Inability Act, 1882, Amendment Bill. Agreed to. Mr. O'Conor moved the second rending of the Nelson Crown Tenants Relief Bill, which is intended to modify the pcualties for non-payment of rent within the prescribed time. Agreed to, :ind wa3 referred to the Waste Lands Committee. Sir G. Grey nrnerl the second rtalin<? of the Lives of Children Preservation Bill. The object of which was to remove the risk of children being poisoned by luciftr matches. The bill was lost by 18 to 16 Mr. Bradshaw moved the second reading oE the Eight Hours Bill, which provided thut eight hours be a day's work and 48 heurs a week'B. The bill was thrown out on a division. Tho House ro3O at 12 55 a.m.

Mr. Bkuchett, the Harbour Board's shipping cleric, whose services weio to have been dispensed with by tho Hallway Department, proceeded to Wan<!iinui, and there interviewed Mr. Buxton, tho traffic manager of the railway, who has arranged tliat Mr. Blanchett hliall continue in hi.s position. It was noticed to-day that the llincmoa, wlten blio dropped anchor off Uio bi t-ulc-wiiter, did not take up the position which the (iiLorun and tiie olhfr Union boits tnuUc for when the Bea i« breiikiu^ oil the wall ;.nd provr-nts their coming alongbidc On Decisions 1 ulicn the weather is thus unf.ivorablo tho Union sttamtrH ahwiys anchor iiwilo in the sincntii water, near the nit'j <>< the proposed wharf. The Ilinemo'i. however, camo-to oil' the end, just where the sea as it Bwept round the end of the wail was felt at its worst. The Hinemoa arrived at tho Breakwater this morning, iind Mr. Samuel, tho ruomber for Now Plymouth, and Mr. O'Callughan, the member for Lincoln, C.intcibnry, came ashore at about twelvo o'clock, and drove up to town. There waH too much sea breaking over tho wall for the Hinemoa to take up a berth alongside. She therefore dropped anchor off the work, and con tnunicalion was had with the shore by bouts. The Uinemoi has aboard a quantity of railway plant for Wan^unni and Mamikau. 'I hit for W tiganui is to be landed here. However, us it wuh impracticablo to work the tort to-day in the absence of tho wharf, tho Ilinemoi left for north durincr the afternoon, and will tlibcharge on her return on Monday. l'Vnn Lore alio will proceed to Wellington, taking back the two members who canio by h.or,