PARIAMENTARY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2439, 9 October 1876, Page 3

PARIAMENTARY.

(PEB MESS AGENCY.)

HOUSE OF EEPEESENTATIVES

.;:;: Wemikgton, Saturday." : THE'COUNTIES BILL BEAD A-THIBD TIITE,

The Counties Bill having gone through i Committee, on the motion that it bo readj a third time, Mr Stout moved Iho adjourn-; merit of the debate in order to ; have the' amendments -in''the bill printed. 1 'Jhis was.lo'st by' 29 to 18;' Then began a series jof formal protests against the' third leading. ''ffU Mowing members.spoke In str.opgterms.in condemnation, pi the bill, predicting confusion 'arid widespread dissatisfaction'from its operation:—Messrs De Lautour, Hodgkinson, Bees, Eeid, Henry, Shcehan, Burns, Grey, Rolleston, E.„ Wood, Stout. Mr E. Wood moved another adjournment, and Mr-Wv,Wood that the bill -be- read that

day! sk"'rnonths, but both' were lost; Ultimately, at 2.20 am., the third reading was carried by 37 against 16, The- House adjourned 'till 2.30 p.m. on Monday, for' Government business only.;