PARLIAMENTARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 984, 2 September 1903, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Per Press Association, WELLINGTON, last night. Tho Council met at 2.30. Tho Crown Grants Amendment Bill, Fertilisers Bill, Indictable Offences and Summary Jurisdiction Bill were read a second time. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30.

The Public Petitions Committees reported that it had no recommendation to make on the petition of Mr J. J. Meiclde, of Southland, for compensation for wrongful imprisonment, and that it had no recommendation to make on a petition to have Meickle’s name expunged from tfao prisons records of tho colony. It was explained that tho committee was unanimously of opinion that Meickle’s name should be removed from the prisons records, but that there was no precedent for such a course being adopted, the difficulty being that Meickle had served his sentence and obtained his discharge. The reports were ordered to lie on the table. The House met at 7.30.

The Arbitration Court Emergency Bill and the Supreme Court Judges Bill passed through committee, and were then put through the final stages aB a matter of urgency. At 7.45 tho House went into Committee of Supply for the further consideration of the Estimates. The voto for the Public Health Department was discussed at considerable length. Mr T. Mackenzie moved a reduction of the first item by £l, as an indication that Government should set up a Board to deal with all appointments to the Civil Service. This was negatived by 35 to 28.