PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1735, 18 September 1885, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

THE COUNTIES ACT AMENDMENT BILL PASSED.

THE LOCAL BODIES FINANCE AND TO WE ICS BILL.

In the Legislative Council on Tuesday the Countie* Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. The provision in the Land Bill providing that the Homestead System should apply to the whole colony was negatived in Committee.

In the House of Kepresentative on Tuesday District hallways Purchase Bill passed ■ second reading. A debate then took pile* on the .Supreme Court Iteportmg t ill, the object of which is to employ short imud writers to take a report of the Court proceeding*. It was pointed out by Mr Urnioml Luuseif an tx -liuige in Victoria —that the transcription olnnUs would always as a matter of course, Le in anear, and when the notes were uanscriiitj, they would not be in a form so bandy to the judge as if be bad hinu.il taken them down. Great inconvenience would also arise when the judge summed no. Ml Ketr moved the adjournment ot the delate f..r a foituigbt, w.dch was earned, so that i racti. aby, the bill has been shelved The Local Bodies Finance and Powers II I. was nett considered in Committee. In the coins* * . the diseiisse-n on the la.-; eh.use ot lb. Cu.ouel Trimble pointed out I tint o! a 1.,,. . i ;.7 e: .listp.i lad lan f.truek out on ii,- n.. ten. I lb li.-vt-iiim.-nt : mid be asked thu HoU.-e t.a.-n-adai whether the Government was likely to I.nnv down a letter scheme ol bed government next year. Ultimately t:,e t i i shorn of three fourths ol the ebiiia.s winch it bad originally contained, was trad a thud time and pass. i. It ins t,. be noted ti at cidUs-t 57 of ih.- lull which rep. a s'.lie K. ads and Bridges C- nstruetioii Ael, ii- n [.line l and pas*, d lie. House rose at 1 el

NEW ITUYK* FOR I HE W ELLINGTON MAs I Eli TON LINE Jl I 1 * I i ITON OF FUEIGIII CHARGES. IE Kooi'i RE FI SKI* A GRANT OF RAN 0. O’ " I it -M toe House of.Represents-tiv-s in U ; w t -r to Or Newman, tne Minister ol F'.toi ■■ W is- -„kI the cattle and ,-h.vp truck- o.i u.i 'Vol'.ingtoii-Mastertou an I PoXo-n Now P yiuvUth iii.os wort' not vu . eonwniei.t, and. us u.-w trucks weto m ulo, Ihev would be made <■! a different pattern more suitable to that particular trade. In answer to Mr Beetham, the Minister for Pubhe Works said he had assented to a new scale id charges f.T freight on the Wellington-Master-lon railway due. The Premier, in answer to Major Atkinson, made a short statement us to the proposals of the Government in reference to the business. With the exception of the Bills about to be committed—the District Bail wavs Purchasing. Waimea Plains Kailways Rating, and Special Powers aud Contracts Bill, a Property Tax Bill, and Appropriation Bill—the Government would tasa no business this set-ion. I’hey could not go on this session with a number of other bills which would be dropped. If the House got on with the business well, the Government hoped to be abie to prorogue this week. J in' Special Powers ami Contracts Bill was considered in Committee. Iu the schedule to tin* IUU. on the sub-section granting R) acres at Pubiu to To Kooti and his people, Mr Koijes-

ton said he hoped it would be struck out. Mr j Lake said the land belong'd to t'ie township I of Alexandria, and could i i ’'! « j Kooti. Mr Ballance hoped t.n- sub-iMdi n would be allowed to pass. It was a matter of public policy that To Kooti and his people should have a place to live upon, if not, he might return lo the East Cons', whom he had af ad with some of the Natives. (An hon member : Send him to Hokitika ) Mr Lake said there was plenty of other land in the district, without giving away that piece. A long discussion followed the result of which was that the clause giving the laud to Te Kooti was struck out. The House sat till daylight did appear, and your reporter left before it ha I adjoarnci.