PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 170, 3 August 1869, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Oa the second reading of the bill embodying the resolutions regarding paying for the ]Bfch Regiment, Mr. W. 11. Harrison wanted to know what the circumstances were which had justified tho. action taken by the Government on Thursday night last. Mr. Bell replied by. giving all the information which he coul<l consistently with the interests of the public. It was that Te Kooti had gone to the headquarters of the King, and on his way there and on "his arrival demanded from all the chiefs he met their meres, , pounamous, and other emblems of authority', at the same time setting up most extravagant pretensipns for,, himself, an I demanding that his-;; peculiar;; I ; phrase <>i -Hauhauism should be- embraced. .This was the first in ielligen^ce/a^ men^khew : tn?t r tf^^ were recognised an immediate : outbreak would result. : i; Later -newer showed that

the King chiefs refused to see or yield to Te Kooti, and that jfc was possible a collision might even take place between .them, but in this Europeans might also be . involved, and the.removnl of the 18th could not have failed to precipitate • mattery, and make them more alarming. Mr. Carleton seemed to think the Government migrht have told the House if not the public all this before, but he supported the Bill. Mr. Vogel said the Government had now more perfect information, which Mid not think right to disclose. y-r. Lmlhm did not blame the Government, but 1 "nought it a pity so many unfavorable rnmors had been allowed to circulate. Mr. Stafford supported the Bill, and approved of the course the Government had adopted. Mr. Bunny hoped the Government would tell the House all it could. Mr. Fox thanked Mr. Stafford for his support, and said the Government had done all it could to prevent or contradict groundless and alarmiDg rumors. The Bill was then read a second time and the House adjourned to 7 o'clock this evening, when the financial statement will be made.

The Oamaru Times gives the following specimen of a telegram received a few days asro by a gentleman in that town : — "Chathnm Islands sighted off timaru Bound for Oamaru. The Marquis op Bute -has been invested at. Jerusalem wit.h the spurs and sword of the celebrated Godfrey de Bouillon, making him a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. The ceremony was performed in the Latin Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, called the Chapel of the Apparition. According to letters from Jerusalem, the Marquis of Bute is edifying the dwellers .in that city, by his piety and his liberality, He passes long hours in tears and prayer at the various spots where the last scenes of the Passion are supposed to have been enacted. His Lordship's almoner, Monsignor Capel, has been preaching in English to large bodies of pilgrims belonging to numerous English and American creeds, and bis remarkable eloquence brings together a large and heterogeneous audience, whenever it is kuown that he is likely to occupy the pulpit in the chapel -of the Ecce Homo. Lady Scott in one of her novels tells a touching story of a lady who, . being obliged by a sudden alarm of fire to leave her room without having her "body prepared," as the phrase i", could not be identified by her nearest and dearest friends. Without hair, complexion, teeth, eyobrow3, bust, and other artificial continuations and surroundings, she was an absolute stranger to everybody but her maid. Said an ambitious youth one day to a young lady : — "Don't you think I'd better dye my moustache ? " carressiog the infant prodigy. " I think if you let it alone it'll die itself," said the lady. The King of Fuu. — Jo-king. Board Wages. — Directors' fees. Spirits over Proof. — Printers' devils. The " Tender.' Passion. — An Engine Driver's. How to Prevent Sea-sickness. — Stay on the Shore.