Political Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 4 July 1894, Page 2

Political Notes.

Sir Patrick Buckley is introducing a Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Bill, to prevent such matters as the recent O'Brien-Stead case coming into Court. It provides that no prize in any horse-race, race, game, fight, sport, or exercise shall be recoverable at law. The polling for the Tuapeka election will take place on Monday,- the 9th instant. The contest will be a close one, although Scobie Mackenzie is somewhat the favorite. His opponent, Mr Larnach, is an experienced election fighter, and as an organiser no man in the colony can give him points. We hope to see Mr Mackenzie win. The Attorney-General has in charge' a Bill to amend the Married Women!a Property Act. It provides that every contract entered into by a married woman, otherwise than Jas an agent, shall bind all separate property which she may then or thereafter be possessed of. Sir Patrick Buckley intends bringing a Bill before the Upper House which will provide for extensive amendments in the law relating to jurymen. The Bill will enact that special juries in all cases are to be abolished, and provision will be made for the enrolment of Maori juries. It will also provide that in cases where juries cannot agree after deliberating for what the Court may consider in its discretion sufficient time the Court may discharge them and a new trial be commenced. g"