TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1602, 18 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Wellington 15. The Public Works estimates wero again considered to late hour last night. Re th«) vote of £45,000, for main roads, Mr Hnrst moved to rednce the item — Nelson, Westport, Greymouth and Hokitika, £8,500, by £1,000. Mr Q. F. Richardson moved to reduce it by £3,000. Both these proposal were lost, and a further proposal by "Mr Peacock to reduce the vote by £500 was lost. On division by 32 to 26 the vote was agreed to. For miscellaneous mads and bridges £83,974, which includes vote for bridge over the Inangahua at Buller Jonction, bridges on roads Nelson to Reefton; and bridge over Grey at CoVlfen, the. Minister said he would ; take £10,000 off the vote which was j accordingly reduced by £10,000. Grant? in aid. £268,329, The Mijiistei „ suggested that £25,000 "should be taken oft this vote. The vote as reduced by that amount was agreed to. Minister of Lands : road* to open np lands for sale, £0 .v.'Oii. The Minister in answer to a question saul he could not recommend any reduction in this. Vote agreed to. Minister of Mines : rotids on gold fields, £50,000. The Premier (in the absence of the Minister of Mines) said it would be observed that a reduction of £17,000 hid been effected, but he would move that it be reduced by £5,000. The vote us redtu-ed was agreed to. Water Races, Middle Island, £30, 200. Mr White moved to reduce this by £3.000. Mr Sutter moved that it be reduced by £15,000. The latter was carried l>y 86 to 21 and the vote as reduced was agreed to. Wellington, 17. A report was presentfd to the Legislative Council yesterday to tho t-ffoct that the second free conference Iwtween the members of both Houses on the Mines Act, 1877. Amendment Bill, 1885, aud a bill to amend the Police Offences Act, 1885. Both measures were afterwards read a first time. The Mortgage Debentures Bill was read a third time and passed. The Municipal Corporation Amendment Bill was on the ruling of the Speaker referred to the local bills committee. The Local Bodies Finance and Powers Bill was received from the House of Representatives, and read a first time. A message was received from the House of Representatives inquiring a further conference on the Mines Act. It was resolved that the message be taken into consideration to-day. A message was also received from the House announcing that the amendments made by the Legislative Council in the 1 Justices of the Peace Bill and Counties Act Amendment Bill In 1 l.oen agreed to. In the Lower H<»uue the Premier, in reply to Mr Steward, said he couid not give a pledge that the Government would introduce n^xt session a bill to amend the Licensing Act. The Act ha-1 wurkwd fairly well, and he did not see that it re- } quired amendment, (hear hear). ( The Railway Authorisation Bill passed ( the second reading. , The Premier in answor to Major Atkin- ' «.-n made a short statement as to the pro- ; uosals of the Government re business. 1

With the exception of the bills about to ! be committed, the District Railways Pur- j i chiving, Waimea Plains Railway, Rating j i and Special Powers and Contracts Bills, Property Tax Bill and the Appropriation Bill, Government would take no business i through the session. They could not go jon this session with the Criminal Code Bill, Railways Commissioners Bill; Magistrates Courts Bill, Prisoner Probation Bill and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act Amendment Bills. If the House got on with the business well Government hoped to prorogue this week. He further stated the intention of the Government to bring uWu the Supplementary Estimates to-day (Thursday). Mr Pyke referring to the Mines Act 1876, Amendment Bill, and the disagreement with the Council in the matter, remarked that year by year the wishes of the House hadj ' een 'frustrated by the other branch' of the legislature.- Bills brought in by himself, the hon. member for Kumara, and the hon. member for Greymouth had been thrown out. Their only object had been the emancipation of labour, but the other Chamber would not agree to any* compromise. Political economist told them thaf the depression j all over the world was caused by the scarcity of «old, yet faey found the Legislature hampering the gold mining industry and crushing it. He moved that a frtwh. conference be appointed, consist* ing of the Premier. Bevan and Guinness. The Premier, in supporting tho motion, said the Government had attempted to do that session what no other Government had done, and he did not think it was fair to accuse thorn of any want of sincerity. Taking away the gold duty from the local bodies at the present time was a very grave step. He did not believe in abolishing it, and be had told the miners on tho West Coast that he did not believe in it, but he had sunk his own views in that I respect. Mr Seddon considered the Government had not given that support to the mining industry it had a right to expect. If the industry was to have fair piay it would need to have representation in thu other Chamber. There were about 12,000 men engaged on goldtields, one half of whom were employed by companies, the other half working underjfminers rights. The motion was agreed to on the voices. The business of the House this afternoon has been almost wholly taken up in discussing the District Railway Purchase Bill, which a few minutes before the dinner adjournment was read a third time by 33 to 28. On the motion of the Colonial Treasurer it was agreed that the House will consider in Committee to-morrow the question of renewing the San Francisco marl service. Mr Seddon moved£the recommittal of the Legislative estimates to reconsider the item of £100 f< r Chairman of Goldtields Committee, which had been struck out, and this was carried. On the motion of the same gentleman the sum of £60 was passed for the Chairman of the Committee in question ' The Supplementary Estimates comes on to-night, and a Frisco mail service concludes the business of the. a.essii«i«,and the prorogation will probably take place on Tuesday. Numbers of members have already left for their homes. The Friendly Socinties exhibiti on Carnival is ilofinitely fixed for Thursday, 15th October, and following days. Satisfactory arrangements have been coticluded wi h the railway department and the Union, Anchor, and other shipping companies to run cheap fares, and it is expected some 5000 members >*f ,thj3,_ different, societies will attend the carnival from all parts of the Colony. Auckland, 16. A public meeting was held at St James' Hall re Mr W. L. Rees' laud and capital co-operation scheme A resolution was carried in favor of appointing a delegate to expound the scheme throughout the Colony. Christcburch 16. Mr C. C. Bowen Chairman of the Committee of the West Coast railway guarantors, has received a telegram from Mr A. Dobson, announcing that he and his fellow delegate, Mr Fell of Nelson, have arrived at Dunedin, in the Tongariro, and will reach Lyttelton to-morrow. The poltce have laid an information against a printer and two booksellers for breaches of the Printers and Newspapers Registration Act, by selling copies of the Pall Mall Gazette revelations printed in Christchurch. The informations havo nothing to do with the nature of the matter published, but are laid on the ground that neither the name n»r place of abode of the printer appeared on the tirst and last of pamphlets.