OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 473, 12 June 1912, Page 5

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

[|lY TKI.VeI! VI'!!. - l'!P-:S VNNOeIATIOX.] iWHinglon, Tuesday. Parliament is to be called for the dispatch of business on June 27th. A special Oasctte containing this announeonieiu w ;is issued this afternoon. The men.in r for Mutt, Mr T. M. WUford. continues to mystify the curious- regarriini: bos intentions politically. However, it is clear that the Attorney-Ooncnilslnp, which ho Uniloubti illy could have taken had he been so inclined, will not be filled from that quarter, if at all, before the Mr Wilford prefers to talk in whimsical parables concerning his plans. He told a newspaperman who asked him questions that his policy for the immediate future could bo summed up in the words of a now popular music hall son;: at present the rage in London, entitled "Keep Your Foot on the Soft Pedal."

At ili.' roquosl of a number of soli.!cr:>. Mr C. ,1. K.van, of Taumavumii. has eonsrntod to accept, nomination for a scat on the Taranaki ham! Hoard. Nomina! ions close on ,in;;o :::'!h am] iho poll, if necessary, will ho held on July ;':Mn. Mr K.van, as one of iho oavlios! soit.lors in the. Kim: Count'v. has ,s-.m nomvii ai! the phrasos of piom oi;>;: aoi i ham ait. lU* is eminently hUod to n prosont. the

soitlor on t!u> hoard, am; hi.-. oiorlion wonh] ho a hi dm: roooanii ion of hin work as a pioiioc r ami as a man who has always taken a kt < n interest, in the advancement of (he hsekhioeks.