PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 9, 10 September 1901, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

Evidently the Premier and Mr Hornsby have fallen out. Sc the latter : ”It is a pity that the Premier does not include amongst his numerous private secretaries an old sub-editor, who would whittle down his verbose productions before they were submitted to the House. Hon. Mr Twomey. : Next to the man who thoroughly agrees with me I admire the whole-hearted unrelenting thorough man. Mr Pirani : If a man goes into a mining speculation he ought to know that the chances are about, say, ninetynine to one whether he will get his money out of it again. Mr Pirani : I defy anybody not a director of a company to obtain a proper statement of the accounts of any limited liability company from the balance sheet as published. Hon. Mr Rigg : If there is a danger to he faced I want to know what it is, and so I say, let this terrible thing come on, whatever it is. The bigger it is the better, for the simple reason that, as Josh Billings says, “ You can dodge an elephant, but you can’t dodge a flea.” The Hon.T. Y. Duncan has been suffering for'some days from influenza, and has not yet completely recovered. The women teachei-s throughout the Colony are now making forcible protests against the scale of salary, as recommendep by the Commission, being adopted, as they e insider their interests not fully protested. The Government has issued a circular to each local body in the colony asking it to furnish a return showing qhe names, status, salaries, and other allowances i f all its officers, together with its revenue. The return is asked for with a view of obtaining information as to the cost of administration in local bodies, and doubtless is in connection with the Local Government Bill. The lion gentleman (Sir J. G. Ward) makes the very same mistake that the Premier makes, through excessive courtesy in endeavouring to please the hon members on the opposition benches. Now that is where the Premier always fails.—Mr Fisher, amid derisive laughter from the Opposition. - “Many of the members of this House copiomsly annotate their ‘Hansard’ proofs and some of them re-write thenspeeches.”—Mr Hornsl »y. “I venture to say we have not a national system in this colony. What we want is a unification fo system. We should have training colleges established in the four centres of population, and should adopt a uniform system of school hoods.,’ —Mr Gilfedder on the education system. “The Commission that will do much good to the rising generation is one that will reduce the syllabus.”—Mr Buddo.