POLITICAL NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 599, 3 September 1913, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAYS. Mr G. Laurenson, in making a plea in the House of Representatives for the payment by the State of the expenses of private members in visiting public works, said that i c such assistance were granted to members thousands of pounds would bo saved every year. He instanced the Canterbury, Westland, and Ulago Central railways, and said that if members had seen the localities before the lines were, commenced they would never have been started. LAND LEGISLATIOiN\ The Government's Land Bill and ihe Arbitration Amendment Bill are in a forward state of preparation, and both will probably be introduced this week. The Land Bill, which will provide a further important instalment of the Government's land policy, will probably ba the first of these two Bills to make its appearance. A large number of reports will probably be brought down this week. The reports that may be expected include the annual reports of the Land and Labour Departments, and aluo the first report of the Public Service Commissioners. If you're living in the country. If yu're living in the town, Or if you've got just eighteenpence. Or even half a crown ; For if you have, and winter's chill Attacks you till you're very ill, That little "stocking" will procure A bottle cf Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. ___ i There will be total eclipse of the moon on the 14th of the present month, visible in New Zealand. The firdt contact lakes place at 23 minutes past 10 p.m. on the 15th. and the last conntact at 14 minutes past 2 a.m. The middle of ilvi eclipse takes place at about IS minutes after midnight. Observers who are not keen enough to sit up so late wil-; have a very Sine sight at about half-past eleven, when the total phase begins.