Latest From Wellington.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 328, 30 August 1907, Page 2

Latest From Wellington.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the Settler.) Wellington, Thursday. Mr H. J. Greenslade, M.H.R., is endeavouring to induce the Ministers te remedy the def cts re the Kawhia County loan?, and has also interviewed the Minister for Public Works regarding tbe vote for roads in tbe various parts of tbe back-block district. The tariff has been under consideration for the past two days, and is today being debated on the second reading stage. Various proposals to modify the duties were made yesterday in the committee of ways and means, but none were succe<-ful. Mr Hngg was only defeated by 32 votes to 81 on the motion for the abolition uf tbe fl >ur duty. The question is certain to come up again when tbe Bill is in committee of the whole, and the result i« rather uncertain. The Hon. Miller proposed to push the Bill on as quickly as possible to its final stages. When considering the Estimates at an all night sitting yesterday morni g, the member for Waikato led the at tack on the waste of money in sending the Inspector G neral of Education Home and io America, which he condemned as an appalling waste of public money and severely contrasted with the difficulty there was in obtaining money for small in his olee'e rate. His motion to reduce the vote of £lOOO kept down for tbe purpose was only defeated by three votes.