Parliamentary Notes.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 July 1891, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

*_ The N. Z. Times thus criticises the speech of the member for Palmerston. Mr Wilson is not a speaker at all all. You cannot class him among speakers by any rule you can apply to him. But he is a talker, and a very c'ever, capable talker too. How can the Hansard men report that rapid, running, conversational style, with its clipped words, its neglect of what we may, for want of a better term, call the need for punctuation ; its low pitched voice never rising into anything clearly, audible ? But the matter ? That is vary different. Logical, clear, cogent is Mr Wilson : those who know him listen to him ; they ieel that he will say something they have not heard in the debate before. If they can only hear him, they know that they will be instructed. And as a matter of fact so they are. On Wednesday the Hon G. P. Richardson ask^d the Minister of Lands if he has caused inquiry to be made into the allegations made in respect of two Crown lands rangers recently appointed ; if so,- with what result ; and, if not, why not ? The Minister of Lands said he had made enquiries. As to Campbell he had for over seven years lived in the district of Southland, and had been highly respected and esteemed, and had been for several years Crown lands and forest ranger; There had been no charges made against him during the whole of that time, and he had been a most zealous and careful officer. With regard to Ranger Connell, he had received references as to his character before engaging him, from members of the House and other public personages. On hearing the charges made against him he immediately asked the Minister for Defence to make enquiries, which was done. From the Police Gazette it appeared that there are three persons ot the name of Connell, and it was evident they could not be the same person. Enquiries had been made, but no report was yet ready. Connell had been suspended by him, partially in deference to what had been said about him in the House, and owing to the fact that Connell had owned having written what was in his opinion a very im proper letter to a member of the House. The Hon. Mr Fergus : Is the Minister for Lands aware that Campbell was expelled from the police for brutally ill-treating a prisoner in his cell? The Minister for Lands : No, I am not aware of that.