LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 14.
THURSDAY, 20TH DECEMBER, 1894.
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PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary and Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE
STEWART LOCKHART).
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the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.).
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
HO KAI, M.B., C.M.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, C.M.G.
ALEXANDER MCCONACHIE
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works, (FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER).
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CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 17th instant, were read and confirmed.
His Excellency the Governor stated that the Director of Public Works was excused from attend-
ing the meeting, being engaged at a meeting of the Sanitary Board.
BILL ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE STAMP ORDINANCE, 1886, "—Bill reported as amended in Committee.
The Council resumed.
The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE TO SECURE, IN CERTAIN CASES, THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY IN TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES. "The Attorney General moved the addition of a suspending clause in view of objections to the Bill raised by certain parties, which were about to be embodied in a memorial to the Secretary of State.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Mr. MCCONACHIE moved the third reading of the Bill as amended in Committee, and subject to the addition of a suspending clause.
Mr. KESWICK seconded.
Bill read a third time and passed.
ADJOURNMENT.-His Excellency the Governor adjourned the Council until Saturday, the 22nd instant, at 2 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 22nd day of December, 1894.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils.
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.