WELLINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 3565, 27 July 1874, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

[Br Telegraph.]

(From our oion Correspondent) July 25. , On the Estimates, on the item for a Government Analyst, Mr Vogel said he was very dad to place the < ; and Canterbury Analyst on the same footing as the Colonial Analyst in regard to the Adulteration of Food Act.

Mr Richardson spoke nearly two hours. His statement was well received on all sides of the House.

On the second reading of the Licensing Bill, Mr Fox warmly opposed it, saying it struck at the r ight of the people to regulate the liquor traffic which underlay the Bill of last session; which Bill failed, chiefly because the machinery provided had been struck out. Good accommodation houses would be found where no liquor is sold. In committee be would propose a variety of amendments Women, who signed the petition under the Bill of last session, should not be r quired to state their ages. It was sufficient to state that they were over 21. He objected to the employment of barmaids; and no woman under thirty should be allowed to serve in a bar. He would close up bil iard rooms, aid all other adjuncts to an hotel, at the time of the closing of the house itself; and'trusted the House would assist to reform the drinking habits of the people. Mr Yogel defended the provisions of the Bill/and would assist in any really useful and even stringent legislation, so as to preserve a man’s property for his family, instead of being wasted by dru kenness or incarceration for a time. The second reading was agreed to, and gthen to be committed on Friday.

The Municipal Reserves Bill was strongly opposed by Mr J. L. Gillies, who vainly endeavored to get his amendment passed legalising reserves for chaitable institutions and hospitals. Mr Reynold* said all r,-serva ions for public libraries would be Crown granted, and a Bill passed through committee. Mr Fox complained that magistrates had no power over the police, and said they were often treated with insolence by them He suggested the Colony should undertake the police conduct by the armed constabulary, as in Auckland. Mr U’Rorke disarm'd as to the expediency of the latter suggestion, and said if occurrences such as Mr Fox described were reported to the proper quarter, the police would be summarily dismissed. Mr Bradshaw has given notice, considering the rapid rise and extension of manufacturing iniustriea in the Colony, which would prohally be followed by equal developeimnt in the future, that it is expedient for the Government, at an early period next session to bring in a Bill based on the principles of the English Factory and Workshops Regu’ation Acts, wnich, while giving encouragement to these industries, provides such regulations as are necessary to furui«h health and safety to the young of both sexes, and to procure for them the advantages of elementary education.