GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3164, 4 October 1892, Page 2

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

<s> LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Tub Council met :it :>.SO p.m. The Government I/imw t<> Local Bodies Act Aiii'jiifliiiout Dili, Kactuics Act Amendment I'.ill, \,>tive Lmd rurehase. Mill, Shop a-nd tthMH Assistants' I'.ill, Customs Liws Consolidation Act Amendment li.il, ,-i'id S.-wants' Registry Office Bill were p'lt tin-ouch their final stages. The liiilii.itri.-il Conciliation Bill whs fnvther c iii-=i(k'i'e<l in committee. Tin i«r<i|«i.-,iti hi cwit-un-d in the 71 ill for tlm e.-tiblishineiit nf ;i court of arbitration was struck nut l>y lo b> li on an indii'oct (livi.s'ii)ii. jind !■)>' 10 t'i 7 on a direct division. Th« clause siibj-utin« tin- l;.-iihv:iy Chiimissinni'.r.s t-i Iliu court of arbitration was struck out by I' 2 t>p .'!. The Bill as ninoiri'VJ was reporttil cmd tI.H tliii-d tv.-idiii},' fixi'd fur next day. Tim O.mieil r.«p ;it -I p.m. JU)\I)AV. Tim lfnnsi-! itii-l; at Ll HO p.m. K«l)lviiisrti> .Mr Uuiliar.l-on, Mr Wa.-d -aid th.i =■ m.-.n-iineiit-s made by tlio I toys,, i,, tli.' Jiinil and Income iiimit Act AiniMidment Bill and tliu (•■incvssions !!v\nt-,iil ivinnuiitiid to between -1120,000 and «0,000. Tim amendment- nuidebv the L.'prM.itivr; Council in tlio Sho|i and Slu-p Assista-uts Bill wi:rc di.w.'nii-il with, no.l .Messrs J. K.illy, T. llclConzie ar,d \V. l>. h'«cvos wiii'ii appointed a committee to di-.uv up the iv!i--ons. Thu ai»icndui(>iits made by the Council in the Factories Act Aniomliiient Bill wore also disaeiw] with, .-mii Arc-.srs Rusiell, Saiifiuvl and W. V. llr-eves wen: appointud i< coinmitte.e. to draw up the reasons. Tho .Inhale, on the report of the Native Ail'au-s C.iinniitti'o on tlwi petition of Te Tik'i was iTcoiwd by .Mt-Uadnian, u-Ilir.-uv his version .if tho truisaction from the (ioverument point of view, [to s-aid the petitinii presented by tin: lritlvo surpi-i-iod him as much r,s anybody, as ho hid been two days m tho district, and had not heard a word about it" Tho debate was intt'miplo-I by tho "i.o'O a'ljournnicnl. The Mouse resumed at 7.00 p.m. The debate on th- repori, on tho petition of Hi'i-oniinn Te Tiko was uontinuod at k'reat leiiirth. .Mr K.-ipii moved as an auvud.nerit: "That iu the opinion of this House, the Government should compel John Lundon to i-efnnd thi>.l7.S'3 tllo«;«ily obtained in Connection with the purchase nf the Jvutaia Block." Several of thn speakers refurred to Mr Lundnn's tr.insiictiiiii as a ni-cr.lly one, while Mr Carroll almitted that the person chiefly responsililo for the discredit ibie. aff-iir wns Lund- n. (L:ft sitline .it midnight).