Sir G. Grey was once or twice called to order while speaking. Mr. Moorhouse denounced Sir George Grey v as a. mischief-uiaker, setting class against class. He was utterly corrupt, and it was high time that a stop was put to the humbug Sir George Grey was continually talking.

After some further discussion, the motion for reporting progress was passed by 43 to 29. The Hon. J. Hall, in Committee, moved the resolutions approving of the employment of three agents for the con version of stock at a remuneration of one twelfth of. one per cent. He described the advantages of inscription, and spoke of the _ special fitness of Messrs. Julyan, Sargeant, and Vogel to perform the work. The latter would in that case resign the Agent-Generalship. Mr. Stevens moved an amendment that no conversion should take place until the House approved of it and the terms pro posed. Mr. Ballance thought the whole matter should be left over till next year. He could not vote for the motion or the amendment.

Mr. Reader Wood moved the adjourn ment of the debate, and the House rose at 12.30.

Thursday, August 26.

The House resumed at 4 p.m. Thu Printing and Debates Committee presented their report, stating that they had not been able to agree upon any re commendation .as to the publication of Hansard.

Sir George Grey introduced a Bill to make further provision for the admission of persons as law practitioners. He would not press the measure further this session. Its object was to abolish certain conditions now provided for admission as a law prac titioner. The Bill was road a first time.

The Hon. Major Atkinson moved the second reading of the Financial Arrange menls Act, 1878, Amendment Bill. He explained its objects to be the provision for a continuance of the subsidies nnder the new arrangement, as previously ex plained. Mr. Pyke moved, as an amendment, that it be read that day six months. He characterised it as an act of repudiation, which, if carried to its extremity, would result in the repudiation of pJI colonial liabilities. What it proposed to do was to pay 7s. Gd. in the LI. It was only in keeping with the whole conduct of the Government. The local bodies had not received a farthing on rates collected during 1879. What he demanded was that subsidies should be paid on these rates, as they were collected before the slightest premonition was given of the intention to stop the subsidies, to enable the works now in hand to be completed. Mr. Thomson supported the amend ment.

Mr. Turnbull and Mr. Barron con demned the Bill as an act of repudiation on the part of the Government. Subsi dies were provided for a period of five years, and it was hardly worth while to suspend them now that only one year had to run.

Mr. Gisborne denounced the proposal as likely to paralyse the public works of local bodies.

Mr. Gibbs supported the Dill, and Mr. Shrimski.the amendment.

The debate was interrupted by the 5.30 adjournment.

EVENING SITTING.

The House resumed at 7.30.

The debate was resumed on the Fi nancial Arrangements Bill. Messrs. Stewart, Reeves, DeLautour, and Macandrew spoke against the Bill, and Messrs. Sutton, Wallis, Richardson, and M 'Lean supported it. The Hon Major Atkinson replied. He said that local bodies were part of them selves, and subsidies would have to be taken out of their own pockets. Was any hon. member prepared to go to his con stituents and tell them that another penny was to be put on the property tax to meet these subsidies. If he was, he was a bolder man than him (Major Atkin son). He was always opposed to the 20 per cent, of the land fund being given to local bodies. If it had been secured so as to provide for opening up lands it would have been well, but such was not the case. Only a very small portion of it indeed had gone for that purpose. The motion for the second reading was then put and carried. Ayes, 43; noes, 23. The House went into Committee on the Custom Duties Bill. Mr. Lundon moved a new clause to impose an expqrt duty of ss. per ton on kauri gum, to he imposed by order of the Governor-in Council, and the proceeds to be given to the counties in which the gum was produced. The Hon. Major Atkinson supported the proposal.

Mr. Shrimski objected, and moved that in lieu thereof a duty of 4s. 2d. be im posed on every hundredweight of wool. Dr. Wallis opposed the duty on kauri gum. It would simply apply to some northern counties. It would bear heavily on a poorer class of tradesmen. When ever other employment could not be got the men took to digging gum, and- it would practically be the imposition of a tax on the unemployed. Such a tax would he a disgrace on any Legislature in the world.

Captain Colbeck objected to the tax, which would be a tax on .labor.

Mr. Reeves, in supporting the tax, con tended that the tax would fall on the storekeepers. The storekeepers got the gum at from ‘L 25 to L3O per ton. In England it was worth LIOO to Ll2O per ton.

The Speaker ruled that the proposal could not be put, and the Bill was re ported with amendments. . The Financial Arrangements Act Amendment Bill was considered in Com mittee.

Mr. Macandrew moved that clause 3, suspending 20 per cent, of the land fund payable to provincial districts be struck out.

v The question was put that the clause stand as printed. Ayes, 34; nocs, 34. The Chairman gave his casting vote in favor of retaining the clause. It- was agreed that the clause should pass on the understanding that the Bill should be recommitteed. On consideration of clause 2,

Mr. Fyke said that the Bill could not possibly be made' retrospective, and that if it passed he would summon the Govern ment, for subsidies due since April Ist last.

The Hon. Major Atkinson said that if they would pass the Bill he would be pre pared to defend any such action. the clause was fhen passed, and the Bill was reported without amendments. The Hon John Hall proposed that the rule about taking new Bills after 12.30 be relaxed for the evening, so as to allow the Order Paper to be cleared off as far as possible,, and enable the session to be brought to a close to-morrow. A number of members having left the House, the Speaker ruled that the neces sary quorum was not present so as to admit of the question being put. The Hon. Major Atkinson moved that the Financial Arrangements Act Amend ment Bill be read a third time. Mr. Murray moved its recommittal, with a view of having the 20. per cent, land fund clause considered.

The question was put that the Bill be read a third time. Ayes, 41 ; noes, 30. Mr. Bain then moved—“ That the Bill be read a third time to-morrow. ”

Mr* Brown spoke in favor of the amendment, and. denounced what had been done as an attempt to plunder the local bodies.

Mr. Turnbull spoke to a similar effect. Mr. Wright v/as of opinion that the action taken would prove detrimental to the best, interests of the. colony. Mr. Thomson also spoke against the re tention of the clause. After some further debate, Mr. Macan drew said that he supposed they must ac cept the inevitable, as Government would not consent, even to an adjournment. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The House rose at 2.15 p.m.

Friday, August 27.

The House met at 2.30.

Mr. Pyke gave notice that he would move—“ That in the opinion of this House it is desirable that the Northern and Middle Islands of New Zealand should be erected into separate colonies ; that, with the view of effecting such separation, a Commission should be ap pointed to consider and report upon the allocation of the colonial debt, and the conditions subject to which the duties of Customs and the Postal and Telegraphic charges should be adjusted to each island ; that a message be sent to the Legislative Council, asking their concurrence, and in viting that branch of the Legislature to appoint a Committee to confer with the Committee of the House thereupon.”

Mr. Bain gave notice to ask if Govern ment would prepare and circulate during the recess a Bill embodying the recom mendation of the Committee re the bank ruptcy laws? Mr. Fultcn gave notice that he wouldask Government what course they intend pur suing in regard to local bodies who had entered into contracts for public works on the faith of a continuation of subsidies]? Mr. Sheehan moved, without notice— “ That the evidence in the petition of Clarke and Gittos be printed.” The allegations in the petition reflected on his character, and had been a good deal com mented upon ; and as the evidence com pletely exculpated him, .he thought it was only fair that the result should be made public. Agreed to. & Replying to questions, it was stated— That Government would, during the re cess, consider the desirability of increas ing the ad valorem duties on articles which can be manufactured in the colony. A sum of money would be placed on the Supplementary Estimates to encourage local industries, and if passed, Govern ment would consider what amount should be devoted as bonus for the manufacture of.cement —It was intended to amalgamate the post and telegraph offices, and where the combined revenue would warrant the extra sum of Gel. charged on telegrams sent from non-paying offices, it would be re scinded.—Government would consider any proposal for laying the permanent Way on the formation of railways from Hokitika to Arahura, conditionally on a guarantee of 15 per cent on the outlay being given. —The attention of Government had been directed to the utilisation of spark catchers for locomotives and so far as they had been applied they hal been moderately successful in pre venting conflagration. —The cost of pro curing secondary and university education out of rents of reserves and other public funds, in addition to the votes under clause 8 of the ordinary Estimates, and class 9 of the Public Works Estimates, had been L 449,022. —Inquiries had been made into the truth of the report alleged against two detectives in forcing an entrance into a young woman’s bedroom after notice that any excitement would be dangerous to her life, and it was found the report was not justified.—The cost of the works for protecting the railway north of Timaru, including haulage, was L36lG.—lt was in tended to give effect to the recom mendation of the Industries Commission on the conservation of public forests. The Public Works Bill was read a second time, and partly passed through Committee. The House adjourned at 5.30.

THE STORY-TELLER.

THE DISRUPTION: A TALE OR TRYING TIMES.

CHAPTER XIV,

stran S e animal and makes strange use a H im °' vn nature and the various arts, Ancl likes particularly to produce , T . l S . ome ” cw experiments to show his parts : I his is the age of oddities let loose. UYRON. Contraiy to what might have been expected, Jean Brown’s letter, intimat ing her expectation of being in Edin ] Wlthin a * ew days, threw Robin Afleck into a mood of abstraction and anxiety. Pie was alone when the letter came to hand, and, after sitting for some time m a deep brown study, he arose, and making an errand to his next door neighbor, the smith and farrier, he returned to the little room wmch he rented jointly with Mr. Dun canson, locked himself in, and drew down the screen. Shortly after this his fellow lodger retutned at rather an eaiiy houi fropri No, 10 Crescent, and was surprised to find matters in tne state described. Plis surprise in cieased to something like positive alaim when his landlady mentioned the lather mysterious circumstances under which Robin had shut himself up. She said he had received a letter which

contained something that vexed him, for after reading it he had remained thoughtful for a considerable time, and then haying gone to the smithy, came back with a razor in his hand and entered the room, since which he had neither been seen nor heard. Mr. Dun canson called more than once without receiving any answer, and was just about to put his shoulder to the door to burst it open, when it was unbolted, and Robin Afleck stood before him with his face and neck smeared with blood. “ What in the world have you been doing Robert?” he exclaimed, as soon as his alarm permitted him to speak. “ Fegs, I doot I have haggit the feck o’ my chin awa’,” replied Robin ; “but just wait ye awee till I get this blude dichted aff, and I’ll tell ye a’ about it.”

After having washed his face, and had succeeded in some measure in staunching the freely-flowing blood a little, he proceeded—“Ye see, Maister J imes, though I’m gaun in my ane-and twenty, I ne’r had a razor on my face afore; ' and though this buff-colored baird o’ mind passed weel eneuch with oot shaving for mony a day, it’s groun sae lang noo that I hear folk beginnin’ to speer as if I was ane o’ the Letter- Day Pents. It’s groun just undeem ously since we cam to Embro’, and when I got word this forenoon that I may expeck to see Jean Broun here in twa three days, I screwed my courage to the shavin’ p’int. But my blude lies at the smith’s door and I’m cutit in a deadly way, for this razor he lent me is liker a saw than onything else.” “ And do you say Jean Brown is to be in Edinburgh soon?” “ No, I dinna say’t, but she says’t herssl’; at least she says your auntie is cornin’ to see the Queen, and she’s for tryin’ to come wi’ her to see me; and that’s the way I wantit to be quait o’ my baird.”

“ The razor wounds oh Robin’s chin and throat were, after all, only skin deep, and when he had got a stop put to the flow of blood, he proceeded to detail to Mr. Duncanson the substance of Jean Brown’s letter. He concluded with the following practical remarks : “As Jean basna seen me for sae lang, I want to be as spruce-like as possible when she comes; for this John Rumplebane, the new plewman, if he’s ought o’ a takin’ chap, as she lets on he is, micht come in atween us yet, if Tean was to see me the least toozie iike.”

“ Well, you will have an opportunity, if you please to accept it, of showing yourself off before her in great style,” said Mr. Duncanson, and then briefly communicated to him the nature of Mr Bacon’s proposal. When he concluded, Robin for some time made no answer, but at length said—“ What for do you think, Mr. Jimes, that job wad fit me when ye’ll no tak 5 in hand wi’t yersel’ ? ” “ You know, Robert, you and I are very differently situated. A man in my position has to be very guarded in many respects. The clerical profession is hedged in by considerations which don’t apply to people in other walks of life; and all that I supposed in this case was, that since there are no profes sional obstacles in your way, you might possibly have no personal objec tions.”

“Have I no ? I can just as ill afford to play the fule as you, Maister Jimes. A ve-veter-veterinary seargeant is no a man to be laucht at ony mail* than a minister.”

“ I don’t wish you to make yourself a laughing-stock in this or any other business, and I did not engage for your willingness to accompany Mr. Bacon on his mad errand ; but I thought you might possibly wish to have an oppor tunity of seeing some of the great people in the Queen’s retinue, and no objections to be a witness of Mr. Bacon’s reception at Court. So just please yourself. If you don’t wish to go you have only to say the word. “ Weel, after a’, I dinna ken but I may talc’ the job. But IMP-hale nae thing to do wi’ the pea-green coat and yellow breeks. I would ne’er hear the end o’ them frae Jean Broun. And as for the cockit hat, I’m no verra shure about eithereris. But, nae doot, if the Provost and Bailies and Toun HSgiutk cillors wear sic like, I canna weel be laucht at; so I daursay I may risk it. Jean Broun hersel’, though she might lauch a wee at us, wad be kind o’ proud ways for a’ that, to see me just like ane o’ the Maugistreets.” Next day Robin was with all due formality, introduced to Mr. Bacon, and pronounced almost at first sight to be suitable. “Judging from his ap pearance, Mr. Duncanson,” said the great man. “ I should say at once that this friend of yours will answer my pur pose exactly. But it may be well for us to have a rehearsal so as to make sure that we perfectly understand the respective parts we have to perform. Let us suppose that the formalities of introductions are over. I have the Lord-Lieutenant of a northern county in my eye, who will introduce me to Ministers. Well, you, Mr. Duncanson, may represent the Premier; as for Lord Aberdeen, we may leave him out of the question at present—l shall speak to him afterwards as to how he should deal with Nicholas and Louis Philippe. You can easily imagine yourself for the time in Sir Robert Peel’s place, and just make any remarks or put any interrogations to me that you may suppose would occur to him. I shan’t, pain you by introducing my views on the Church of Scotland, for on that subject you cannot be supposed

to feel so impartially as Peel,. or to listen with such pleasure as I know he will do to details of my ecclesiastical project. So we will waive that at present, and proceed at once to Irish affairs and Free Trade agitation. You, of course, must consider, Mr. Duncanson, how much Peel must be puzzled on these subjects, as he is not a deep thinker, hut only a managing, shifty man, while he is surrounded by very perplexing circumstances, and harrassed, no doubt by a host of quack nostrum-mongers and interested party men. All this, of course, must make his situation very perplexing—pain fully so, in fact —so you must realise in your own mind the anxious interest with which he may be expected to listen to the exposition I shall give him of the course he ought to follow. You must do this, and just give expression to the thoughts which you can imagine will naturally arise in his mind as I proceed with my observations, so that this may be as nearly as possible a sort of pre enactment of the audience scene. You understand ? ”

“ O yes, sir, I understand what you intend, but I am afraid I shall not be able to represent the Premier in any other sense than as the person to whom you direct your discourse. Your own imagination must supply the rest, for I confess myself incapable of supposing how Sir Robert will respond to your remarks.”

“Very well, no matter. I shall, of course, address you just on that under standing. As for you Mr. Afleck—you take your place right behind me, with this portfolio in your hand or on any conveniently placed table, and whenever I ask for any paper, you must have it ready to give to me,” ' 0 “ But hoo am I to ken a’ at ance the paper ye want ? It may tak’ me a gude while to rummage it oot.”

(To be continued—commenced on July 26.)

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, SATURDAY; AUGUST 28, 1880.



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