Political Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 7, 8 July 1895, Page 3

Political Items.

Mr Willis is asking for the introdiu tion of - legislation regulating medics fees. Mr Massey wants it made clear tm persons other than chemists and dru sellers will not be prevented by tl Pharmacy. Bill from selling sheep dir containing arsenic or other poison. The Premier thinks the Ternperanc question is inseparable from generj politics, and members must reconcil themselves to the fact. The Evidence Further Amending Bill has been amended by the Joic Statutes Revision Committee by the aci dition of the following section :— " N newspaper proprietor, editor, or reporte shall bo compelled to disclose in an proceeding the name of the writer of an; article, letter, or paragraph appearing without such name in the literar; columns of any newspaper, which ma; bo the property of such proprietor, o upon which such editor or reporter ma; have been engaged at the time of th< publication in such article, letter, o: paragraph, provided that nothing heren contained shall be held to lessen th< personal responsibility of such proprietoi editor, or reporter in respect of sucL publication."