IN THE LOBBY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1038, 3 September 1883, Page 2

IN THE LOBBY.

[from our parliamentary correspondent ]

Vv billing i on, To-day./ , $ The Dargaville Committee will bnng up their report to-morrow. Mr Daniel is to ask the Government if they are aware that a steamboat has lately been launched on Lake Wanaka, trading from Pembroke at the head of the Upper (Jlutha Valley to Mabaroa, at, tire heacf of the lake, and whether the Government will take into consideration the adviaar bility of assisting this enterprise by subsidy or otherwise. • -!

. Mr Fulton is to ask the Colonial Secretary whether the prayer of a petition of; the.Taieri County Council with regard to a change of the county boundary has been’ granted, and if not, why not 1 Mr Bath/ate is to ask the Government if they will instruct the. Inspectors of Machinery throughout the colony to. see that all machinery in workshops and- in warehouses where lifts are empleyed l is properly guarded, so as thereby “td lessen the number of accidents 3 '#biclr arise from want of proper protection. Mr Duncan is to ask the Minister of Public Works if he will the platelayers with shovels, and also 'if he will grant them the three public 1 holidays usually allowed to public servants, .’ ’y 11 Mr Postlothwaito is to move that it’is desirable in order to encourage the dailT produce industry that the Govemmeilt should offer money prizes* for..cheekfe, bacon, and butter ; that th&prizea 'should be for the bestl.OOOlbs weight of cheese, for the best 500 lbs weight- of butter, in tubs of lOOlbs each, and for the best five sides of bacon; that this year the:prresi be competed for at the Canterbury Agricultural Society’s Show, held in November, at Christchurch; and that Government afford every facility for the conveyance of dairy produce from all parts of the colony to compete for the prizes. Mr Pyke is to move that it ..is essential to the well-being and good Government of New Zealand and for the preservation of the unity of the colony that provision should be made for the establishment of one or more local Governments in each Island, with power to legislate for and con-trpLtJie-ftuanagemflnt of local affairs and < the expenditure of local revenues.;