PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Mataura Ensign, Volume VI, Issue 284, 24 August 1883, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

i (FBOM OUB OWN REPOBTEB.) :.:' ,-i T( > i.£ ■"' > !. i ■ ' ; :'• fa i r W*LtiNGTOir, August 23. , " A •The rVor? :j o£ the 'Select 'Committee to en- , q^ire What nlatn"r'oads' co'm'e'unaer the Boats'' '" Bridgfes-Consfcraction Act has • -'be&r.l&id^*.. the HQUse.vConsiderable;op s»j. position was showjv.tq reading thft rgpp^Oapt*},,}.. Mackenzie being particularly demonstrative. The reason for thjs ji-|«h l .topre^pi»t,'the report bsing read will perhapstappear by and by^^ The Surveyor- General, was the only *witn^^H[ Examined by the committee, and very percf-^^ ntotly remarke'd'fh'at it wai quite impossible that an official; ( in.fhi^. position coijld judge correctly what should or should not be constituted main roadsr ''Members getiirally feel aggrieved. P that .they been called upon to giye^Vyldence. ' ' As" to roads named. r.y« in, the schedule, those in Southland havebeaa considered "main road3 except ten mile 3 i&|enhamto Anderson's station, and fifteen miles Glonhara to Run 177. The following, new applications hav« beeu introduced in the Tepdri :~Waipahi to Gore via Arthu^to^ H |and Fuicerar,, 14 raiLles>^. E^scli% miles. ' ' vy[ '••" ; The Mataufa Reserve Vesting 'and 'iSnil ■ ' powering Bill wa/s. thrown, out vesterday bythe.Legisiative.Council, it being' thought the reserve wm tod' valuable to be entrustedl ta'"* the'eare of th|tocal body. TheGqveranieni('''^ have, however, promised to preserve the" rV oriif serve'frdm 1 dWs'tru'dtibh aiid liaTe' it 'pui'-'to^a' 4 ~ d piX)per use. • A^thbugh* tlie people' of Mattttj|^fct' will probably beTaJaappointed at this;iate3BP gence, it is satisfactory to. ( know tha»t qoarry-"^ in^ on the reserve will bestoppejiiff ptone ttb. be] obtained at a reasonable op§t ;el§ewhere. i; , Ithe Government announced to-day [its intention to^sendu ' 'delegate af t'er the ■ sesaftrtf 'l tojthe : CJbrlfeJreriQe ia Australia on the ariieka-'" 1 ; ' tion question. :.•.';.-•..<!■•• Ji The unusual number of questions on the Order Pap^rj-oap fewjer '^lian \^— xejedew ft impossible to get through, ,th£»',part of to-day's programme before adjourning for dinner.