PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1719, 28 May 1886, Page 4

PARLIAMENT.

• In the House Wednesday afternoon, lan animated debate took place on a "motion of ]\lr Guinness, to grant >free passes to school children other ;than those attending Stato schools. ;Tho Hou Mr Siout opposed, on Hie f ground of expense, while Captain ptiissell urged that a similar concession should be made m the case of [■.pupil teachers m country schools. : JMajor Atkinson thought the motion did not quite meet the cave, and Amoved as an amendment, that the same facilities as to free passes should ; be given m children aUending private ?£phools. The Premier characterised ?Vhe proposal as an attempt <o introduce denominational education, and gsaid he was opposed to the amend*nient as well as the original motion. After other speakers addressed the vHon?e, M.tjor Atkinson's amendment was carried on a division by 39 to 25. Th<- second reeling of the Limijati'ii of Votes Bill was carried on •T»b.e voices, and of the Law Practitioners Bill by the oas'.iiijj; vote of "the Speaker. The second wading of "the Hon Mr Ballance'a Native K« ■.serves Tit-lea Grant Empowering | Bill v;p.s carvifd Mr Brrce at fh'.Ht . objiciina: to lite piineij.ile oi personal ?-govrrHmo-!i(; l\v the 7 s T:uive Mmi -tar \ embodied m fch xI M. b»fc suhseVqnently wit! dv.ivvia^ liis ol>jec:i(in fxtn the •iiHiu'-fcan'ling that ihe 101 l jb«ror.Ul be wmi-m-i'd m committee si'Tlie quern inn uf ilio :^oud reading oi f/.ihe Nai/iv-! EquiUb-e Owners B.I! L^wa3 adpwrueo 1 »s:Uil thw following f.dity, on the motion of M.v Bryce: I- A northern contemporary is m raptnres at the way m which the ladies Who formed part of a Committee of both sexes camel on the business. The Chairman commenced by laying, ••We will ivad tlie minutes of the JSht meeting." "Oh, never mind them" said an elderly spinster "let them go, |thpy are stale l»y thi-J time," and the Ibinutes went. All through the meeting ihe/iadies Imvl |hingi their own way Sjzfted m snMime desivgnrcl of tfvise K^agfs and customs which prevail at of the sterner .^ex.Tiiegenllefmea present were delighted with the Chappy manner iiJ which t!ie business : Jba4 been trans ieted, and one old igcotlciuan with tears of joy m b.is eyes that the iai'ies should be |;dwmissed with v blessing, and they I were. I" A strange story sostraujfe that m "-fiction it wonld \>e condemned for ita impossible situation — comes from Mil;.waukee. Five .years ago, as the story ■ goes, Mrs Heineman, wifn of "WilLliam, submitted quietly to a divorce I; for which hp sued on the ground that I she had l<ope him no children- Wil- '.. linm soon siffcerwards married again, and now has two children. About two months ago he removed to Milfrom Michigan, where he had olivorced hi? first wife. A few days plater she arrived m Milwaukee, I and begged sopiteously to be near her | former husband, whom she said she \ still loved more than life, that Mr. X Hernoman and his present wife took ;fhiprin as housekeeper. They are now 1; .'.a11- living under the same roof, anl r the former wife seems to he exceed- \ i n g'y grateful for her privileges and f fonnd of hor former hunhand's The love that caa urge a | 'women to nccept this situation must ■be irresistible Miss Belle Franklin, a young of Mc-Hf-nry County, was slepping m a "slvi.ck," which she had built Uj-on hor cluim, when she : was awakeud by *he crackling noise of a prairie fire. Looking out fche saw th« (lames sweeping across the plain. She knew that hi-.r litighhors half :t j mile ilistant-, were away ft om home, I' and the lire w'»uld soon envelop the I house, bam, hay anil grain. Jnicpi- ing from bor bel she harried away :■ to the low log barn m which the farL merV e x taJ&uirftaß lied. Harness■p^the animals rushed them out fw (he plough, ami before the fire had T renched the jiremises she had turned^ furrows and formed a 6roR>reak, which saved the propeity. A new explosive has beon brought out, whose name is lather expre&sive v m English, Hellhofite, but not intentionally po, as it is called after its inventoi-. [t is more poweriul than nifro-tflyceriue', and at the lame time possesses this valuable advantage, that it is not exploded by a yhock nor by friction, nor even by flamt; it roust have a detonator for -it« explosion. Under these ctrcum itancea it an he handled and tr«nsported without the least danger. The obief o'ljccfionH to it are that it illiquid and volatile These may be got over by the discovery of some jgsficl absorbent with a powerful «»ou?h attraction for the Hpuid to keep it from evaporating. At present the elaborate presautions that have lo be taken with powerful explosives a real nuisance. P^tVc Sh'vv Uoom at tlm Bon Marche bef's^Ti:! a most Mp.ffnificsnt assortT,,flt oi the Latest. Novelties m Mantles, fleers. Fnr Capes, Woollen Shawls, «kirfe c . Fancy Woollen Goods, Costumes, Sancv Aprons, Scarfs, Squares, Glovps. and ka variety of novelties m Fancy Qnoda, EimittedW the most Complete J|took ift