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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 144, 17 June 1873, Page 2

A Wanganui paper says that Lottie seems to have regularly won the affection of her dark skinned admirers. The ladies at Putiki are keeping up a, regular correspondence with heiyand occasionally, when urgency requires, have recourse to, the wire. '" '"'" ' : '' ' {\\jH \- c ".7An Education -Bill lately introduced into the Tarauaki Provincial Councii, but r the consideration of which is postponed until after the. provincial elections, provided for: tho appoiotment of 'an itinerant schoolmaster, whose duty it would be to travel the country' and give instruction to / childreninj aettlements where schools were too far off for them to attend. For these services it. was proposed he should be paid. £1 a Wee\s.~lndepehdenl. ,-_.* Mb -Tbollope on New Zealand Orators. — I was often asked in New Zealand whether the line of parliamentary debate in that colony did not contrast favorably with that which I heard in the Außtraliaqi' parliaments. „I nm bound to. say that at Wellington I heard no word to which any Speaker of the House could take exception - and that this propriety of language was maintained while very hard things were -being, said,- by members, one of another. This is, I think, as it should be. The life necessary for political debate cannot be maintained without the saying" of hard things ; but tfce --use of ; hard words makes debate at first unbearable, and after a time impracticable. But I thought that the method of jtalking practised in the New Zealand House of Representatives was open to .cspsure on another head. I have never' in any national debating assembly— not r-eyen, -in, , Washington^ — seen, so constant a reference to papers, onthe part of. those, who were speaking, as was made in' this debate.' It seemed as though barrows full of papers must have been brought in for the use of gentlemen on one side and on the other. From this arises the great' evil of slowness. The gentlemah'on his legs in the House — when custom has made that position easy to him — learns'to' toko delight iu delayihg'the House while. he turns: over one folio after another, either of manuscript which has been arranged for hinv or of printed matter which'he has marked for. reference. And then, to show how very, much at home he is, while gentlemen are gaping round him, he, will look out for new references, muttering, perhaps a word or two while his face is among the leaves— . perhaps repeating the. last words of his last sentence, and absolutely revelling in the tyranny 0f.".-hisj : position.,. ; , But while doing sq,cr he is .unconsciously losing the orator's power of: persuasion. I doubt whether Demosthenes often looked at his papers, pr Cicero he was speaking, or P^fr-r;jq"3gijbgifrdjaa;'jiy6a.t I have seen from the strangers' gallery at home, I should think that New Zealand minister has learned to carry to ah absurdity a practice which is authorised, and no more than* Authorised, ; by ; the usage- of our House'iOf .Commons." • A^ speiaker,' ' on/' ob- j serving Buch.a-fault, can barely call the . offender to. prcler ? — but he. might have ,the ; power of< putifng 'out "'the gas I.*1 .* I cannot' -conclude my remarks about-the Wellington Assembly and; the -debate -.which, I- heard 'there, without saying that the four Maori members discreetly split their Vote, two supporting andj two voting against, , the Ministry. , , ..•--,,.,