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Amendment proposed —That the Salary of Post Master General be retained on the Estimates at the rate of £100 per annum.—{Mr. Fitzgerald.) Amendment negatived. Further amendment proposed—That all the words of the original motion be omitted with a view to insert the following : —that it be a recommendation from this Committee to the House, that the House should address the Officer administering the Government for the purpose of respectfully apprising His Excellency that the sum named in the Estimates, for the Salary of the Post Master General, is voted in the confident reliance of the House that the office will immediately cease to be a sinecure, and become one of laborious efficiency towards the important objects for which it exists.—(Mr. Il'alcejield.) Question put—That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question. Committee divided. Ayes—-21. NOES—B. Messrs. Monro Messrs. Kelham Featherston Sewell Ludlam Travers Revans Wakefield O'Brien "Weld Hart E. J, Wakefield King Macandrew Rhodes Wortley (teller). O'Neill Picard Porter Lee Taylor Greenwood Gray Fitzgerald Forsaith Gledhill Crompton Brown Cutten (tellei'). Whereupon original question put and carried. No. 7 —Question proposed—that the Salary of the Postmaster at Auckland be £250.—(Mr. Fitzgerald.) Amendment proposed—That the question be amended by the omission of the figures 250, with a view to insert 300 in lieu thereof, —(Mr. Macandrew.) Question put—That the figures proposed to be omitted stand part of the question. Committee divided. Ayes—l 2. NOES—IS. Messrs. Picard Messrs. Sewell Fitzgerald Grenwood Crompton Macandrew Gledhill Lee Ludlam Porter Hart Gray Featherston O'Brien Brown Monro Revans O'Neill Kelham Mackay Clifford Wakefield Wortley (teller). F. J. AVakefield Weld Travers Forsaith (teller). Whereupon amendment put and carried.