TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 July 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC^ TELEGRAPH.] [from our own correspondent.] HOUSE OF EE^RESENTATIVES. Wellingt >n, June 30. The Legislative Council last night were occupied with the second readin? of the Chinese Immigrants Bill, which afier long debate, was carried on a division of thirteen apainst ten. In the House, the principal feature connected with yesterday afternoon's sitting, was the debate on Hursthouse's motion, that in opinion of H< u-'e those districts through which Government ail<» ways haye been constructed should be rated to pay difference between working expenses, including interest on cost of construction and Receipts from such railway. The debate^nHed in a double defeat for tfie tWOppQsJtic'"' Tife/tnoliuii WBSHptfP and carried by '35 to 31, amid loud Opposition cheers. Wallis gave notice to more on the 33th July, that in opinion of the House it would be unjust to disfranchise owners of freehold property in the Colony, and that Electors Qualification Act, 1879, should be so amended as to give Parliamentary franchise to leaseholders and to ratepayers. Reeves gaye notice to move for the ap* pointment of a commission to report upon goldfields, and the mineral resources of the Colony. Wellington. The vacant portfolio is still unfilled, but Wakefield's name is now freely mentioned as the coming man. Dunedin. . On the Health Officers bearding the ship Charles Worsley from London, they pronounced that a seaman shown to them was attacked by small pox. Three per* sons had been attacked on the voyage. Joseph Peregrini, aged 41, died from it, and two others are bad'y marked.