LATEST PARLIAMENTARY.
f By Tblegkape.] {From our own Correspondent.) THE HOUSE RISES.
Wellington, December 23rd.
The House formally rose at tun minutes to five this morning, and the Northern members left overland two hours later.
THE GOVERNOR DISTURBED.
The Appropriation BiJl passed without any discussion. The Governor had to be roused at 3.30 for his assent to the measure.
THE WORK OF THE SESSION.
Parliament sat forty-four days, the average being seven horns thirty- four minutes per day. Of this 277 hours were before midnight and 66 aoucs 30 minutes after. Five hundred and eleven petitions were presented, of which 420 were European and 82 Maori. The number of public bills which originated in the House was 122, aud those brought from the Council 10. Nine bills were dropped in the Council and seventy-three in the House. THE CABLE RATES AGAIN.
Before the House rose this morning, the Premier said be did not think it would be
wise to recommend the House to authorise
the granting of a cable subsidy, and if the ' cable were not paying, as stated in the communication from the Cable Company, they should raise the rates and make those using the cable pay and not the Colony. Under their contract the company had the right to raise the rates to 7a for a message of 10 words ; but if they went over that amount the Government would farther ooniider the question.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1415, 24 December 1887, Page 3
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