PEARL FROM PARLIAMENT

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 July 1903, Page 7

PEARL FROM PARLIAMENT

HOW lon- is the Government poing to keep up this humbug ot leasehold, because it is humbug •>— Mi . Bollaitl Any individuals of my people on the East Coast who suppoitcd the •king movement were all slaughtoied bv me. — Mr. Pere. * * * An hon. member.— What about the North or li eland? The Hon. Mr McGowan — lhat is on top. It is the cream. If ever the Governor should letuin to this colony in the language of mv country we will say to him "Naumai Naumai te rangatira Ranrurly. —Mi. Jennings. You w ould have imagined that up to a shoit time ago a boy had no right to live in this colon\ Pi event boys being employed" is the ciy of the unions. — Mr. Alison. * * Ido not know how it is in other parts of the colony, but m this distuct it is to my mind, lamentable to notice bow' very few voune men theie aie coming forward to take the places ot the old teachers who are leaving.— Hon. Mr. Fraser. * * The Right Hon. Mi. Seddon will be known as the great master butcher— the great mastei butcher of the colony It is a strange thing that in his he was a butcher, and he still has a hankering after the fieshpots.-Mr. McLachlan. * « * Theie is in the colony that which no English capitalist or body of capitalists or financial company can withdraw from it and that is the glorious sunshine, the rain and the fruitful character ot the soil of New Zealand. These lemain to the people of New Zealand, -whether capitalists flee away 01 stav — Hon. T. Kennedy Macdona^. * * * Statements are being made that picfeience to unionists means that alaige number of deseiving men who aie now in employment aie going to- be turned out ot their jobs. A gieatei fallacy than that never existed. I nevei heaid such confounded nonsense in all my life.— Hon. Mr. Jenkinson. If you have to deal with a contain number of unionists and a ceitun number of non-unionists, the non-unionist individual is a union in himself in fact, the diffeience between dealing w ith a mixed body like that and a union is the diffeience between dealing with the devil you know and a devil -sou don't know."— Hon. Col. Feldwick * ♦ Mr. Alison — I ask, do not the Go\einmcnt in oien appointment to the Legislative Council appoint a Government supporter'-* Aie the gentlemen appointed because of their special firmness, because of their wisdom and matin c judgment 2 An hon. member.— No. Mi Alison — The honourable aentleman says No." Ke is ouite right. * • Mr Bollaid- The Piemiei lias -ot the idea m his head that he can mle the monev-maikets of the woild, and he has the piesumption and bombast to stand up on platfoim after plattoim and tell the Bank of Kngland and othei great monetai-\ institutions of England that he can raise moiic without thorn The, Right Hon Mr Seddon The Bank of Ireland ' Mr Bollard —If \ou had the. Bmk of li eland here -sou would be all light — -*■ ■>*■ Hon. Mr Mills With all the honouiable gentlemen on that side of the House, physically and mentally sound, I am told they cannot make up their minds to select a leadei up to the pio-<-ent. time. Sir W R Russell- We aie waiting till we get an autociat, like the loadoi of the ' Maooinika" excursion The Hon. Mr Mills —Well, he was there at his post all the time, and not afraid to represent his part\ . If we had boon wandenng about without a loader we should ha\e been like a ship without a rudder and piobabh not have been back hero vet

Apeiahama Tipae" is the namo by \\ hicli m\ Maon hientls. alw aA s adchess me — Mi Lethbiidge The honourable gentleman who has just sat down (Hon Mi. Mills) said that > oung mombeis should be caieful as to what the\ sa\ . So should all iiirmbti^.— Mi. Alison. •*■+-+ I suppose the Picniu has been fai too bus\ , adjusting the aftaus ot the nations ot the eaith, to lemembei that the 10 was such a thing as mining m the colony — Mr. R McKen/ie After the licensing poll was taken in Ashbuiton someone lemarked to me What will A'-hbuiton do without pub-lic-houses 6 Will it stagnate 6 " I answeied, No Did \ou e\ei know a publican bung a tat sheep to maiket (H plough a faun- Mi McLachlan It seems to me that the great detectin oui laboui laws is that oui bo\saie not tieated faiih. I heai thiough the whole length and bieidth of m\ ele-ctoi-al and the sunoundmg districts that tho bo\ -labour (|iiestion is the one oioat blot on our piesent labour legislation that bo\ s aie not being taught tiades as they should be.— Mr Field. Some bundled and hft\ thousand men and women ■voted for no-hcense, when m leahtv tlie maionty of thorn do not hold that \ ie\\ m then heiits The fact of the mattei is this theieis a temporal v wa^e of disgust at the rapacity of ceitain members of the biewmg interest in imposing drastic lcstnctions upon their tenants — a disgust which ha* obta.med a voice at the poll-ing-booths in connection with the piolubition pait\ — Hon T KennecK M"acdonalcl.

The splendid Impel lahstic policy w Inch the Right Hon the Premier puisued, a policy which was indorsed by the people of New Zealand from one end to the other, should shield the honouiable gentleman fiom adverse criticism in respect to his sayings and doings in connection with the South African war, whether at Home or abioad — Mr Alison • * * 3li Lethbndge. — The Mimstei is coming up to look for himself after the se-sion He has made that promise, and we will promise him a right royal welcome and feed him up. The Hon. Mr. Hall-Jones. — I use to a point of order. Is the honourable gentleman m oiJtr in offering inducements, to a. Minister to visit the distnct b\ piomising to banquet him and gut 1 him a light loyal welcome ?