HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 187, 22 July 1873, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FRIDAY, JUi-r IS. The Municipal Corporation Watt" works Bill, whifh has been read a second time, provides tint debentures may bo made redeemable within fifty years from the date of iwutu Also, that debentures may be given in exchange for works purchased by Council. The Assault ou Constables Bill provides that persons assaulting, obstructing, or inciting constables, are liable to .1 penalty of £10, or two mouths' imprisonment with or without hard labor. Persona offending against the provisions of the Act may be attested without warrant. In the Upper House to-day, the him Mr Hart moved the address m reply. The hou Mr Waterhouse, in speaking to the motion, congratulated the House that we now had a Governor experienced in official life. He proceeded to criticise the speech. The departmental administration, he considered had been loose. He had seen a. number of blank forms, with Sir Geoige Bo wen's , signature, kept in the drawer of the Colonial Secretary's orifice, and the Under-Secretary had been orieiel to lock- them up in the wife. Ho hoped that Jthere would be no repetition of such an occurrence under the present Governor He (Mr Waterhouse) yaUtx] such practice* fiaud. A tighter system of administration was altogether necessary. The moat important requirements of the Civil Net vko Act had been neglected. The only department properly clusaificd was the Custom-house. The Land Fund Act had been a dead letter. The AttorneyGenernrs salary wan legally fixed at £1000 per annum, yet lie had received £1200. The money voted for roads in the North Island had not been properlj applied. Allowance! for travelling expenses had been exceeded | ministers and jtulees ueie allowed tnofeitmeasa-day for travelling expenses, but they had drawn four guineas. He held the AuditorGencr.vl bljim ible for puassing such accounts. The prosperity of the colony »v.i» not entirely due to the public works }, 'hey It iiuidup al&o to the prosperity of the pastoral Diteu'bta.ancl l he in ie.ii«d priceof wool, which had brought three iuilln'ii-< of ironu\ hilo tliocoiony. He wan a supporter of tlio jmlilu im,i',< jiuln \ . Mr Wnlerhouse itloo criticised Ot llf I" J I'll i i Kif LMO nJlU'otl. The .iJiiif-- in \i"')'v v,>* ajuvi to. In tlie ![•''( '• 1' , ' n'l'i "■> 'i'lii, Mr O'Connor asked the C > nmt-wmnci ,), fnM. u-. w.i.-iier I c (nntri. menr intend ■• to «ut>->t it ut «i muii'io i ,kin, k i n i/,- (n- thy j»iv-< *nt qualification ? The reply he recened whs, fiat .iv naii betlei wait until the new Eler-foral Bill wns introduced. Th« following hills wvre lead i» first tune: — £xt«nsion of Miner-*' Fnmohite, Telegraph Cables Subsidy Agreement Raiifiention, Cixil Serrn<e Act Amendment Act, Permanent O(Hc< n' Sa'ai j. Animals Importal Oi Prohibition, Provincial Councils Powers. The speech was ordered to be presented on Tuesday. The Municipal Corporation Waterworks, and Assaults on Constables Bills hare been committed. Mr Murray moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to report on the producing and manufacturing resources of the colony. — Agreed to. Mr Murray moved, relative to the prevention of the Awa- | tera native lands being alienated. He said that large tracts of land wore passing into the hands of speculators, and the natives of Napier wore being (Incited ot their land. The I Native Minister promised to introduce a. bill to meet the requirements, Mr Atkinson hope 1 that tho confiscated lands would be included. Mr Fitaherbert itnidthat immediate notion should be taken to prevent large tracts of land being bought up before the bill parsed. Some of the lauds were now beiug sold at fourpence an acre. — Motion agreed to. The motion of Mr O'Connor, for a return of the expense of forming and re\ising the last Electoral Roll, was al*o agreed to. The following cablegram from Dr Featherston was read in the House, at 5 p.m. ,\ eslurday : " Ttvo thousand six hundred aud fifty souls sailed in May ami June ; probably twelve hundred in July. Total railway plant shipped: 10,500 tons — 1G locomotives, 31 carriages, 17 break vans, 163 waggon*. Mcduls next mail."

A priise of £300 it* offered through Ilic .Soctnl Science Association by his Ewollimiu; Don.Senor Arturo de Murco&rtn, ex-deputj of the Cortes in Spain, for the beet essny on the subjeot of International L.vw. The decision ii to be by a "written vote" of tho majority of the judges. The hi I<IP3 are to eonsi«t of ivprc-entatireii from t!>e Social Soionoa Aiwoiation, tho Poaco Souictiei, the Cobden Olub (!io lute Tnbanal of Arbitration at Geneva, and of such repve^rntatiTfs of other irif on? ai mny bo npprore^ of bv the Executive t'oniiintleo of I lie Soeiul Science Association in conjunction with tlio donor. T.io L/xio Timu says it sceniH to it that tho scheme is impracticable.