PARLIAMENTARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 987, 5 September 1903, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL'

Per Press WELLINGTON, last night. The Council met at 2.80. Tho Testators Family Amendment Bi was read a second time.

The Polico Offences Act Amendment Bill regulating the hours of closing public billiard rooms, prohibiting the use of words denoting Government patronage of any business without authority, and further regulating footpath traffic, was read a second time. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30. It was decided that after Wednesday September 9tb, for the remainder of the session, Government business take precedence on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. The House wont into committee on the City Single Electorates Bill. Messrs Baumo, Taylor, Duthie, Bedford, and others immediately offered opposition to tho title of the Bill, and a lengthy discussion was entered upon. The House resumed at 7.30.

Discussion in Cnmmitteo on the City Single Electorates Bill proceeded throughout the evening, tho principal speeches being mado by Messrs Duthie, Baume, Bedford, Taylor, and Fowlds. • Sir Joseph Ward said the wholo business of Parliament was being delayed by a small minority, in face of tho overwhelming wish of the Houso, and despite the fact that tho country had expressed a desire for the Bill,

At 11.30 tho amendments which had been moved to the short title by Messrs Fcwlds and Baumo were lost by over thirty ofja majority, and the short title was adopted.