TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 20 July 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

« [RX ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [from our own cobbespondent.] HOUSE OF BEPRESENTATIYES. Wellington, 17. The committee on the licensiiig bill resumed on clause 106. The motion that £40 license only be charged in boroughs of at least 1000 population, was negatived by 36 to 21. Motions to reduce the fee to £30, and to make it not exceeding £25. were nega'ived. A motion to reduce the fee. outside of boronghs to £20 was lost by 37 to 18. Pjke, Weston, Levistam, and Wallis denounced the bill as having been reduced <o a perfect chaos through the indiscretion of the temperance section of the House, and intimated their determination to oppose it passing the third reading. Reeves concurred. He said he had from his boyhood been a consistent advocate of temperance, but be denounced the shape to which the Pill had been reduced. All that they heard in the lobbies was that the bill was a piece of confounded rot, and members said, ' Just let it go on an.J when iha proper time comes we will threw it out.' In its ordinal state it was passable, but since then it had become to be the child of many fathers, none of whom would recognise it. Speight moved that the rest of the bill should be passed p.p it stood, and that its opponents should re?t their strepgth on the third reading. Andrews moved that progress be reported. Hall opposed reporting progress in consequence of the threats used by the op» ponents of the measure. He was wil ling to keep them to their word, acd sit till 5 in the morning. Fox hoped that after the disgraceful scenes of the last two nights, members would support his motion to abolish BeU lamy's when he next brought it forward. Wallis denied that any members ores*

ent were not in a condition to temperately and fairly consider the Bill. Progress should be reported. Weston indignantly repudiated the aspersions cast on members by Fox. The Bill had become a scandal and should be thrown oat. He, although a young member, would not submit to such aspersions as those Fox had thrown on the House. Pyke also protested against the language used. Eeeves strongly condemned Fox's intemperate remarks, and the Premier's evident loss of temper. Ft x's remarks were a disgrace to the House, and the Premier should be ashamed of himself. The motion for reporting progress was lost on division by 32 to 18, A telegram had been received from the \gent«General relative to the actuaries' report on the Life Assurance Depart* ment. It reads .— ' The actuaries' report to* day — The Finance Department is de« clared sound. The su rplus of £77 000 is pronounced very good. It is recom mended to divide £60,000. The report gives great credit to the department.' Wellington, July 18. i -HSheefraVa "prornlseT~Bill ' to r reverT ~ftT Provincialism is causing a good deal of discussion. It will tend to show clearly the precise strength of the Opposition and Ministerial parties. July 19. Reeves renewed his notice of motion for the periodical removal of Wardens on goldfields.

DtTNEDIN, July 18. David Proudfoot to-day telegraphed to tbe Premier his willingness to proceed at once with the construction of the Otßgo Central Railway on the basis of the proposed grants to the company. ~Z i July 19. Mercer and wife v. Queen, a claim for £2000 damages for injuries sustained through alleged negligence of the Tele* graph Department, in leaving a wire across the road, is being tried before a special jury. Chbistchttbch, July 19. There are thirty cases of typhoid fever raging here, three have proved fatal. AH traced to a dirty dairy previously reported.