Parliamentary Notes

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 40, 16 September 1884, Page 3

Parliamentary Notes

In the Legislative Council on Friday last it was resolved, on the niotion of the Hon. Mr Waterhouse, that the present mode of distributing the honorarium paid to members beeonsidered with a view to recommending a more equitable. mode of distribution than under the existing arrangement.

' Mr Nurse tried to have the copies of the Gazette .now forwarded to Justices of the Peace stopped. He •was defeated by 18 to 9. In the House of Representatives Mr Turnbull gave notice that he would ask the name* of the contractor who supplied, and the inspector who passed the defective railway plant which had afterwards to be rectified in the Addington workshops. In replying to Mr Holmes in this connection, Mr Richardson said it was quite true half the work done in the Addington workshops was in altering and re-making imported machines. The Agent-General had been communicated with on the subject, but time had not, been permitted for a reply. Steps had been taken to prevent the colony being a loser by the transaction. j

Mr Stout said a Bill had been prepared to amend the Municipal Corporations Act, but it was doubtful if time would permit of its passing this session. Sir Julius Yogel said the Government did not purpose to amend the Roads and Bridges Construction Act so aa to enable County Councils to •undertake irregular work. It was promised by Mr Stout that favorable consideration would be given to the proposed appointment of an agricultural department in connection with the Government.

The Hon. Mr Richardson said that provision had been made for pushing on the Upper Manawatu Bridge Contract and remedying the loss caused by the late floods. An Imprest Supply Bill for £150,000 •was introduced and passed through all its stages. A. select committee was appointed to examine and report upon questions relating to public accounts, consisting of Atkinson, Ballance, Barron, Bradshaw, Coster, Cowan, Dargaville, Montgomery, Moss, Newman, Peacock, Wilson, and Yogel. Mr Moss proposed, as an amendment, that Atkinson, Ballance, and Vogel's names should be omitted. He was snuffed out by Sir Julius Yogel. -. . A committee consisting entirely of southern men has been appointed to report on the Northern Trunk Railway. On the motion of Mr Richardson a select committee, to consist of Messrs Fergus, Fulton, Gore, Larnach, Montgomery, White, and the mover, was carried without discussion.

(Special to tho Chronicle.) Wellington, Sept. 12. The School Inspection Bill of Mr Smith has been printed . and circulated. ■Itprovides that all inspectors of public schools shall be appointed by the Governor and the inspectors shall be .transferred from one educntional district to some ether district not Less than once in every three years. To-day Mr Joyce followed up his inquiry about the alleged bribery contract of Mr Mitchelson. All Mr Mitchelson's friends I have met with, though they do not believe he has acted corruptly, admit that he has been indiscreet. However, the facts must now come to light as, on Mr Holmes's motion. a committee of inquiry has been appointed with power to call for witnesses and papers. ____^_______ -