POLITICAL.
VVhbn we state that we have only received i B: newspaper from Auckland since our last sum tnary, it wiil not he expected that we can give even the mdmsi uutiine of what is going on a Auckland. A tew snatches in the Taraoalti and ITawke's B.iy papers have informed us that the -General Assembly session would close to-day— the term for which it was elected expiring to-morrow. The New Prutinces Act narrowly escaped being repealed, the Ministry having only a ma jorily of one. The Bi.) to apportion the Wellington debt between Bawke's Bay and Wellington, has been thrown out. It w»s opposed by the YVelliiigtun members because it proposed to refer the respective amounts to dioitmtion without defining ih.tt the loan contracted by the Weilinirtun Go° reniinent was a pet'Miaiieot debt, witliiu the ineaniu(j; of the Act. Uawke's Bay being O nly i debtor so far as regards " perina'ciem" debts. The Bill to repeal the Money Clauses of the Land Revenue Appropriation Act ; carried through the Lower ijuuse by Di. Feutheiston las been thrown out by the Lords. We are ignorant of what proceedings have >een taken with regard to the Wellington deaJock.
The Provincial Council of Wellington met for half an hour on the 23rd Oot. and adjourned to the 20th Nov.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1469, 6 November 1860, Page 4
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216POLITICAL. Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1469, 6 November 1860, Page 4
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