House of Representatives.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 310, 12 July 1883, Page 2

House of Representatives.

House met at 2.30 p.m. ' The 'Joint Committee reported that the New Zealand -Kative Lands Bi'l was a private one. - - Replying to questions Ministers* stated Government -would arat-nd ttie law so as to »ive local bodies < power, to keep rot.ds free horn gjrse spreading from, , adjacent hedges. - There was no power ~W prevent . James Carey or other informers landing 'm the colony, if they came. 7 A Bill for the ' arrest of fugitive husbands would be introduced. Mr Hutchison moved for leavejto' introduce a Bill to repeal the Cons tagious ' Diseases Aot Messrs liolleston, Fyke, Montgomery, Joyce, and JTolraes opposed the motion,and „ Mr Fitzgerald and J. Buchanan sap'pofted it. Leave was refused on a divisiou v>f 42 ,^o- 19. The debate on the anti-central resolutions "was ' continued, m the oours,e of which' Major Atkinson emphatically stated that^ Gi-overn-mont would not under' any circumstances consent to a diversion of the vote of £lßo,oqafor the South Island main trunk Tail way, Mr Holuies smbsaquently accused" the Government of having hood« winked and imposed upon .the Canterbury membersiD regard t'o the Bast aud' West Coast Railway, ' and the diversion of the £180,000 vote. Mr Connolly thought it waste of time to discuss the possibly of giving fresh Jife to the dry bones of Provincialism.- His experience and that of his constituents hud- been that Provincialism was the most ceu<ralising*'syste£n possible. He" would x n'ot remain an hour m the Government if it consented %Q divert the dSISOJOQO ' ' '" Capt'. 'i Mackenzie • thought the,present system of local self Government satisfactory, sufficient, and a great improvement on Provincial Mr Pyke mqved tl^e adjournment pf the debate. The House rose at 12, 10,