PARLIAMENTARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1003, 23 September 1903, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

(Per Press Association.) .WELLINGTON, last night. The Council met at 2.30. A motion similar to that passed in the Houso on tho previous evening, expressing appreciation of Mr Chamberlain’s services, was moved by Colonel Pitt and carried on tho voices.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30. _ ) The Arbitration Court Emergency Bill to allow the employers a deputy representative to take hiß seat on the Arbitration Court, was put through all its stages as a matter of urgency. The remainder of tho afternoon was spent considering the Shipping and Seamen Bill in Committee. SHIPPING AND SEAMEN BILL. The Shipping and Seamen Bill has been under consideration in Committee the' whole evening. A* clause 219 Mr Hall-Jones said he was anxious to got at any person who was responsible for the shipping of wool, flax, tow, or skins in such condition from dampness or otherwise as to be liable to spontaneous com- i bustion. This clause, ho thought, effected that object. Mr Wilford moved an amendment to provide that testing shall not bo necessary by the shipper, but merely that reasonable means bo taken to ascertain whether the wool, ect., is in such condition as to be liable to spontaneous combustion. This was accopted by Mr Hall-Jones, and the clause as amended was then added to the I Bill by 27 to 24. Thß next clause provided that tow must be covered with hessian as protection against risk of fire from sparks. This was struck out on the voices.

Great quantities of mica havo been discovered in Somaliland, and several persons have obtained a concession to prospect for the minoral in that country. The earnings of the London County Council tramways for last year to July 25 were £165,336, as against £142,987 for the same period of the previous year. “ After five years' experience, I have no hesitation in saying that women oan make a living out of the lighter branches of agriculture," is the hopeful statement of a writer in Country Life. Three Jewish colonies in Argentina— Mauricio, Entre Rios, and Moisesvillo—peopled by Russian and Roumanian Jews, have 7380 inhabitahts.

A gentleman who addressed a meeting in Levin recently (says the Farmer) stated that tho meat supplied to the people of Levin was “ not fit to throw to the dogs.” The butchers rose in wrath at the statement, and demanded an apology, and we hear that the gentleman has tendered one. He now says the meat " is fit to throw to the dogs.”

As the result of an 11 egg service ” at a church in Biggar, Lanarkshire, 80 dozen eggs have been sent to the children's hospital in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, imported direct—Now on view. A lovely lot of the Latest Novelties bought by our London buyer. Be sure and see them at C/ROSIE & .CO.’S.

Whoever would be “ Cock o’ the Walk ” Must open his mouth and orow loud,

For whispers and mutters are plainly not talk, And very soon lost in a crowd. We take special care that we may be heard, Our knowledge we cannot immure— For bad coughs and cold the stuff that’s preferred IsWOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE.