General Assembly.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 83, 19 August 1868, Page 3

General Assembly.

TuKßiur, August 18, [»y Bun_-A.uiNK i'tir,y.auA_iM[.] In tho Houoo of lioproaontafcivos, Mr Stafford road an abatruot from Mr Fit7,horbort'« despatches reporting tho conversion of tho following stoolM .— Oonoral Oovornmont fives, £100,800 ; oixoa, £010,800; Auckland bi'jcoh, £'102,500; Oantorbury sixes (1802) £492,400 ; do (1800), £1/1 1,400 ; Ofcngo aixca, £33,400 ; Hawko'a Bay sixes, £00,000. Total, £2,810,000. Tho amounts remaining outstanding aro respectively ; — £500,700, £733,700, £37,500, £7000, £155,000, £105,000 ; Nil. Total, t £.1,001,000. A largo portion of this amount ia supposed to oo hold abroad or in the colo».iea Mr J, O'Noill moyod that tho Independent's article in Satui'doy'a ifiauo was a broach of privilege. A diHCiwsion ousuod, tbo numbora on tho divittion boing ayoa 22, nooa 20. Ho doolinod, hoivovor, to proeood i'urthor. Mr Graham's motion for rotaining ono rogimont by .expending £50,000 annually on Nativo and Dol'onco purpoaoa waa nogatived without dobato. Ayoa 4i, noon 20. A com plaint waa aftorwardw mado by Mr Macandrew and othora who woro in tho committoo rooma, writing lottora for tho mails, that tho boll waa not rung. Tho dobato on Mr Graham*! Becond motion fov tho abolition of tho Dofonco Oillco woo adjournod till tomorrow. Tho Houao doos not sit to-night in ordor to attend Mr FiMornld's lottturo on Art at tho Now Zoaland Inatituto.