PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1888, 9 July 1888, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

(From our own Correspondent. ) Wellington, Jaly 9 Things are'unutterably dull to day, and there is not the least shadow of a paragraph to be pioked v? m way of lobby gossip. This 13 partly accounted for hy the faot that a number of members have this morning gone ov a visit to tho forte In the harbor, with a view, if possible, to assure themselves by personal observation o£ the state of the defences of Port Nicholson. Ifc is said that ou the whole they are flatlefied with the trip There was a practloe with the Nordtmfeldt and other guns, and considerable aoouraoy was ahown. Mf Lawry this morning showed me some very fine epeo'menß of fluke kidney potatoes, grown at One Tree In Auckland dietrlot. They were only planted m February and were dug up thh week, some of them belDg over half a pound weight. Be has distributed them amongst some of the Southern members, and Mr Pyke Is sending a parcel of them to Dunedin and Mr Ward to Invero%rglll to show what can be done m this Island.

A meeting of 'h« Committee appolnte to oonfer with Mr McO*llum who has beea temporarily appointed as instructor m the art of making dairy prodnoe took place on Saturday. It was resolved to advise Mr McOallum to vUit the Walrarapa distrlot first, then Rangltikef, then go through Wanganui to New Plymouth, after this to Napier, Glsborne, Tauranira, and the districts North and Soath of the olty of Auokland, The Government have issued circulars to the Chairman of various looal bodies asking for replies as to where it is deemed desirable far Mr MoOillam to visit.