TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 August 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

[FROM OUB OWN POBEBSPONDENT.]

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Weli,is<*ton, August 19. The House was occupied last night on tho motion to commit I£e-Disfribin ion Seats Bill. Debate occupied sis liour3. The motion was carried by 40 to 19. Macandrew gore notice of motion in ' ijie House to-day, that the Colony i

iivide in(o two distinct provinces—each t with a Legislature of its own, com- 1 prised of members of the House of , Representatives of each island, elected j during tbc general election lor such | Legislature. The President *and Chief I Executive officer of each Leuls'i ture fo i have full power to provide for peace | and good Government, and 1 gislate on | all but 12 prescribed su ject* ; present Assembly to continue tor the whole colony, and deal with those su'jects of i raising loans, &c. TLe Bill will be in- . troduced within one week alter the si.« , ting of the next cession. Dunedin, August 17. A five«nomed house at Port Chalmers, occupied by Kobert Hastien, was burned ' diwn this morning. The building and contents were insured in the .Northern for £.)00. Hilgendorf's store at Waihola has been b irned down. It was insured in the Colonial Office for £300. The owner estimates bis loss at £300 above t' c insurance. The committee of the Benevolent Ins'", tufcion have received an anonymous donation of £300 to establish an orphan asylum the intilution.