PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.

Second Session of the Sixth Parliament.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Twenty-fifth Volume.

COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM

THE TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF AUGUST TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, 1877.

WELLINGTON:

BY AUTHORITY: G. DIDSBURY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER.

1877.

LEGISLATURE OF NEW ZEALAND.

GOVERNOR.

THE Most Honorable GEORGE AUGUSTUS CONSTANTINE, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

Premier and Colonial Treasurer

THE MINISTRY.

The Hon. HARRY ALBERT ATKINSON.

The Hon. FREDERICK WHITAKER.

Colonial Secretary and Native and Defence Minister The Hon. DANIEL POLLEN.
Attorney-General

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ROLL OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS.

Acland, Hon. John Barton Arundel, Canterbury.
Baillie, Hon. William Douglas Hall, Marlborough.
Bell, Hon. Sir Francis Dillon, Otago.
Bonar, Hon. James Alexander, Westland.
Brett, Hon. De Renzie James, Canterbury.
Buckley, Hon. George, Canterbury.
Campbell, Hon. Robert, Otago.

Chamberlin, Hon. Henry, Auckland.
Edwards, Hon. Nathaniel, Nelson.
Fraser, Hon. Thomas, Otago.

Grace, Hon. Morgan Stanislaus, Wellington.
Gray, Hon. Ernest, Canterbury.
Hall, Hon. John, Canterbury.
Hart, Hon. Robert, Wellington.
Holmes, Hon. Mathew, Otago.

Johnson, Hon. George Randall, Auckland.
Johnston, Hon. John, Wellington.
Kenny, Hon. William Henry, Auckland.
Kohere, Hon. Mokena, Waiapu.

Lahmann, Hon. Henry Herman, Westland.

Mantell, Hon. Walter Baldock Durant, Wellington.
Menzies, Hon. James, Otago.

Miller, Hon. Henry John, Otago.

Ngatata, Hon. Wi Tako, Wellington.
Nurse, Hon. William Hugh, Otago.
Paterson, Hon. James, Otago.

Peacock, Hon. John Thomas, Canterbury.
Peter, Hon. William Spence, Canterbury.
Pharazyn, Hon. Charles Johnson, Wellington.
Pollen, Hon. Daniel, Auckland.
Renwick, Hon. Thomas, Nelson.

Rhodes, Hon. William Barnard, Wellington.
Richardson, Hon. Sir John Larkins Cheese, Otago
(Speaker).

Richmond, Hon. Mathew, C.B., Nelson (Chairman of Committees).

Robinson, Hon. William, Nelson.

Russell, Hon. Henry Robert, Hawke's Bay.
Scotland, Hon. Henry, Taranaki.

Stokes, Hon. Robert, Hawke's Bay.

Taylor, Hon. Charles John, Auckland.

Waterhouse, Hon. George Marsden, Wellington.
Whitmore, Hon. George Stoddart, C.M.G.,

Hawke's Bay.

Wigley, Hon. Thomas Henry, Nelson.
Williamson, Hon. James, Auckland.