POLITICAL NOTES

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 107, 22 August 1902, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES

Mr Haselden. —I never yet heard of a Government prospecting party striking payable gold. Mr McKenzie. — Then, you do not know much about it. Blue tinted voting papers, thicker than those hitherto used, are to be employed at the general elections, Mr Arnold was informed < when he asked that some means should be 'employed by which the roll, number on the gummed down corner should not be seen. The Government proposes to introduce a Bill pernciitbing boroughs with a population of less than 2000 to raise loans from the Government for the purpose of making roads. The Minister for Agriculture thinks the slaughtering and Inspection Act requit es alteration with regard to the Slaughtering of swine, but it is not probable that any amendment will be brought down this session. The Government is having prepared a book on “Health.” for the use of the public schools, and in that book the subject of temperance will be dealt with. “ Any returned trooper I have spoken to,” says the Minister of Lands, .“ is of opinion that the worst pa~t of New Zealand is far ahead of the Transvaal. I believe that those troopers who have stayed in South Africa will come back here in a very few years.'’ “ What a long tail our cat’s got.” igterjected Mr Hutcheson, while Mr E. M. Smith was making a panegyric on New Zealand’s progress. “ Yes,” replied Mr Smith, “ our cat may have a tail and so have you —and a very dismal tale you do unfold most of the time !”