PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2136, 19 July 1907, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

Press Association. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Tho Council met at 2.30 p.m. and after adjourning for tho presentation of the Address-in-Reply to the Governor, adjourned until Friday week.

house of representatives. Tho House met at 2.30. The Premier in answer to a question stated that no duty on korosono was imposed by the new tariff. Tho Musicians’ Biff (Mr. Sidey) was read a second time and referred to a Select Committee. Tho Accountant Bill was read a second time. The Trustees -Act was put- through committee unamended. The Houso adjourned at 5.30 p.m.

The House resumed at 7.30 p.m. The Farriers Biff. Pure Foods Biff, and Public Trust Bill wore reported from committee with amendments.

PAK-A.|PU. Press Association. WELLINGTON, last night. Tho caso Joe Gee V. Williams was heard before the Full Bench of tho Supreme Court, to-day. Appellant was convicted and fined £IOO at Wellington -on a charge .of selling a ticket for pak-a-pu. For the defence it was contended that pnk-a-mi was a game of chance and not a lottery and that tho information was laid under tho wrong section of the Act; that there was no proof that a lottery did take place; and that pak-a-pu is not a game oi chance by which prizes nro gained within the meaning of the Act. Tho Magistrate overruled those con tentions and an appeal was lodged. The case is somewhat conflicting.; a: judgments boon given by Justices Stout and Williams on tho game >1 pak-a-pu. Messrs. Chapman, Iv.C., and Wilford were for the appellant, and Mr. Mvers for respondent. Mr. Chapman' opened the case on the lines of the defence in tlio lower court.

The hearing was unfinished to-day

NObLICENSE CONFERENCE'.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, Yesterday

Over one hundred delegates are attending the Colonial Conference of tho No-license party. Hr. Adam: presides. It :vas stated that the whole of tho Alliance debt had now been extinguished. It had been necessary to find £2OOO, and this was now in hand, and further amount: to come in woidd provide a credit balance for future work. A long discussion took place on the principle: and policy of the party and desirableness of a colonial vote upon the liquor question, and the equity of settling any question submitted to the popular vote by a simple majority was reaffirmed.

WELLINGTON, last night. At to-night’s meeting of the N.Z. Alliance Conference a visit was received from the Hon. It. AlcNab. He said he had long taken an interest in the Cause. It was commonly asserted that a politician held whatever views he had simply as a means to personal advancement. This was not true in his case, as Jie had been a no-license worker long before he became a politician. A resolution was carried that in future the Alliance should also be the executive of the annual conference. A committee was set up to consider tho need of establishing a first-class inebriates’ home. A resolution was also carried with acclamation expressing appreciation of the great and successful effort made by the general secretary to clear off the Alliance debt. Mr. .A. S. Adams was re-elected president.

ACCLIMATISATION. Press Association. WELLINGTON, yesterday. At the Acclimatisation Societies’ conference a proposal was presented from tho Buffer Society, demanding that- a license fee of £25 for the season and a tax of od'per gallon should be levied on the collectors of white- • - bait." The conference affirmed that there should bo some restrictions on taking whitebait for canning and freezing. Mr. alker pointed out that the matter of stoats and weasels had been dealt with rather perfunctorily. These animals had been largely responsible for the extermination of the pu'keko, kaka, and many smaller birds, and the conference ought to urge the Government to declare them vermin throughout the land. -Mr. Pollard, a Marlborough delegate, protested as a representa■fcivi f?oni a rabbit-infested district. Ho recalled that many settlers there hi! been ruined by rabbits, and others had just climbed through their j difficulties, principally by the liistru- ■' mentality of' stoats and weasels, -fwhich had been introduced, at enormous expense. Mr. Walker s surtcestion was not acted on. It. was decided that it be left to each separate societv to fix a date most suitable for the opening and closing of thi deer shooting season. The matter of limiting the number of trout caught by an angler in one day was ■withdrawn, being one for a contei • ionce between the different districts. The following resolution was carried : '‘That this conference request tut '■Government to make a systematic atitemptMo acclimatise Atlantic salmoii tin the’Waiau watershed, Southland. It was also . decided to ask the Government' to continue the importation of Pacific salmon. Mr. Payton .said the severance of a large portio. •of the Auckland acclimatisation district to he administered by the tourist Department had been d'n'r'g 0 " to the; society very suddenly, and . did not quite know now :o proceed. Ho moved a resolution expressing approval of the Auckland society s tie mand for compensation. WELLiNGTON, last night. A deputation from the Acclimatisation Societv’s Conference waited on ths members of the Ministry for the purpose of presenting the resolutionpassed at the conference on tho preV *Sir Joseph Ward said lie was person ally-in sympathy with the desne to"conserve J game from unsportsmanlike destruction. He would do ni best to have the recommendations o. tho conference carried into .effect. The Hon. J. A.. Millar said lie 1 ad not heard anything about the destruction of whitebait Hi nver , would have to make iim.U ines the supply to the public could b •rlipcked. If it was practicable to in troduce haddock and herring to N.Z. waters lie would place a sun ■o i tho Estimates to meet the cost Ho would ask for a sum this year fo i>he purpose of getting Atlantic sa moll ' DUNEDIN, yesterday. The Independent Political Labor League protests against the introduc ‘tion of a shooting license m Alev. "Zealand, and intends appealing te workers throughout the colony to op _pose the introduction of such an unjust law.