PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 48, 22 June 1896, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

♦ - IN HOUSE AND COUNCIL. (By Tki.eokaph.) t b'rum itur S/i,viitl < 'nn; s/ni)iih')it. / Wki-i.ington, this day. A private Bill will be introduced in both branches of the Legislature to legalise the amalgamation of the Primitive Methodist and Bible Christian churches. The Minister for Public Works says lie is proud to be thought a modified edition of the Premier. Uicearton Russell says that the late Government mining engineer (Mr 11. A. Gordon) received a guarantee of £7,000 for three years' work when he left the Government service to join the foreign mining syndicate, £4,000 of which was deposited with the Government. A Royal Commission of inquiry into the police force of the colony is being asked for by Mr Joyce. The object of extending the course of medical study under the Medical Practitioners Registration Amendment Bill to five years is to bring the law into line with that of the Home Country and the other colonies. Mr Seddon will continue to temporarily control the Labor Department, and the other portfolios will probably be re-allotted at a Cabinet meeting to-day. The Minister of Education to-day promised a deputation from New Plymouth and Stratford that no interference would be permitted with the endowment comprising 10,000 acres, set apart for higher education in the Taranaki Provincial District. This is the endowment which the \\ ellington people were trying to nobble for the purposes of the Middle Island I niversity College.