PARLIAMENT ART ITEMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1389, 29 July 1878, Page 3

PARLIAMENT ART ITEMS.

[Bx Telegraph.] [from the correspondent op the press.] Wellington, July 28. THE PREMIER’S ILLNESS. During the last few days Sir GK Grey has been sufficiently ill to cause his friends no little anxiety. Ho '.himself acknowledges that at one time he hardly expected to recover. To-day, however, his health has much improved, and in fact he looks fresher than for some time past. He confidently expects to bo able to take his seat in the House this week. COLONIAL TITLES. Several Parliamentary papers were to-day returned from the printers. Amongst these I find the correspondence between the Governor and Sir G. Grey with reference to conferring the title of honorable for life within the colony. Such title, the Premier contends, should only be established with the concurrence of the Hew Zealand Parliament. He concludes as follows—“On the whole, it appears that the most fitting rule to adopt in this colony will bo that, whenever any honors conferred upon any inhabitant of New Zealand by the Sovereign are notified in the “ London Gazette,” such notification shall, upon its receipt in this colony, be forthwith published in the “ New Zealand Gazette:” but that in the case of any honor conferred upon any inhabitant of New Zealand not being notified in the “London Gazette,” or in the event of any general rules being laid down by the Secretary of State regarding the conferring of honors upon the inhabitants of New Zealand, then the despatches relating to such cases shall be laid before the General Assembly during its next session, and may be published in the “New Zealand Gazette” in compliance with a resolution of each House of Parliament to that effect, but not otherwise.” EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES ACT. _ In the report of the Royal Commission on the Employment of Females Act, it is stated that thirteen employers of labor, twenty-five employes, Inspector Mallard, and two inspectors of nuisances were examined. The commission sat in Dunedin. Mr Burns, late M.H.R, for Roslyn, was the only employer who, wished for an extension of the hours of Th f commissioners notice various in the working of the Act, but its main conditions. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. In the letter of the Agent-General on immigration, the report of Mr Brewer, subiramigration officer at Wanganui, is embodied. He draws attention to the prosperity of the German township of Pukepapa, near Marton. His reply is a full report to the warning of the German Government. In papers relating to the University of Now Zealand, Colonel Whitmore draws attention to the fact that the General Medical Council of Great Britain_havo recognised matriculation at Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide Universities, but failed to recognise that in New Zealand. There are also papers relating to the petition of James Mackintosh, and to a reduction in Sir G. Grey’s pension as ex Governor, be being now Premier, but they are unimportant. THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT. It is stated that Mr Ballance will make the financial statement on Tuesday, but this is improbable.