PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 12, 20 September 1901, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

" I shall conduct the business oi the House without taking anv noi "c > of members opp s.te. ' —The * P em er. v " I believe no Parhamert m the world can be pointed out w,th such irregular hours as were maintained by the Premier last session." Mr Monk. „ The constitutents send members here under the impression that we have common sense. The3 T find out afterwards that most of us are deficient in that respect —(laughter)—Mr Tanner on late settings of the llcus-e. " We desire to get the session through by the first week in October." —The Premier. " November," said a voice, and the Premier encouragingly remarked that if they made up their mi ids to get through the work they could do it right enough. ; ' No wild cats have emanated from ti.o West Coast. Men came from other centres and demoralised certain people on the West Coast. The excco tions prove the rule,"* Hon. R. Reeves. The object cf appointing so many Comin tteeo, ,-, > Mr. Tanner says he was inf.amed by a Aiinoteo, is to give members so much to do that they will not be able to go in for intriguing.; " 1 can't stand the work the same as I used to, and I am taking tilings pretty easily.'said the Pi eimer yesterday. He subsequently explained that his health was all right, but he was " not going to stand night work." We shall see. The Premier said last night that the real reason why Mi- I'a-dv spoke in ti e Financial del-ale w.->s contained, in a letter to a paper in k'..-. electorate in which the writer- com,Gained that the Selwyn electors "were getling nothinofor their money. As Mi- Seddon coneluded the reading of the letter memboo s interjected, " S good, Edwards, Liberal Organiser.'' Captain Russell —" If I were in the Speo i- er's chair. I would make the Preno'er do as I hied."" The Premier " You would have a, job." " The Premier thinks we come here to vote him supplies r,f money, and then he will get rid of us as quickly as po.-s-"h!e."--M.r Tanner. " lie would like to strap a muzzle over the mouth of gvci-y independent member of the House." Mv J. Hutch eson's opinion of the Premier, '• The whole discussion has been carried on with a single eye to the elredging industry."—The Hon. W. M. Bolt' on State audit of companies. (Cries of denial). Mr Bolt-- "It aro-e nut of dredging, and has been discussed from -the sidelights "<f that industry."' The Picton Press says -- The death is annouced in Blenhe m of Mis Ellen Litchfield, widow of the late Mr F. J. Litchfield, aged 80. It occurred on 11th instant. The deceased came to the Colony with her husband in 1853, and after a residence of sme s'xty years n the Nelson district, came to B""eoI(im, where she had resided ever ineo. She was very active until within a few davscf her death. She leaves f u • .-ons, most of them well known in the "vVah-sm district. A groat, deal of correspondence is being published in the columns of our Milton contemporary as to the price of the 41b loaf being increased to 6d, while 5d is the ruling pr'ce in "Tunedin.