LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 124, 17 June 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] WE LLINGTON. June 15. The Times this morning urges the ncces■sity for codifying the statutes oF tho colony, and recommends that the work be entrusted to the hands of Judge Richmond when he returns to the colony. PARLIAMENT A R Y . LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. June 15. Parliament was opened at 2 o’clock today, in the Legislative Council, by ,a Commission, consisting of the Hon. Major Richardson, the Hon. Major Richmond, tbe Hon. Dr. Pollen, and the Hon. John Hall, (the latter gentleman not being present). A constitutional question was raised by Mr Waterhouse, that it was not necessary to swear in members of the Legislative Assembly upon the assembling of a new Parliament. Tbe Speaker thought it was optional. Some members took tho oaths, while others declined to do so, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. June 15. In this Chamber, His Honor Chief Justice Prendcrgast swore in 63 members, and the House proceeded to the election pf Speaker Sir Julius Vogel proposed Mr W. i :z----herbort for the office, as he considered Uie appointment was neither a political nor a party one. He (Mr F.) had been selected simply because be was considered to possess the best qualifications for the office of any man in the colony. Sir George Grey, who seconded tbe proposition, paid a high tribute to Mr Fitzhorbert. Mr Stafford also expressed bis satisfaction. Mr Fitzberbert, briefly returned thanks. The Speaker-elect was then escorted by Sir Julius Vogel and Sir George Grey to the chair. June 10.

After the usual formal business, such as giving notices of motion, and tabling papers, Sir G. Grey asked that the Standing Orders be suspended in order that the following notice of motion be given viz., “ That the Government be requested not to sanction any sale of lands, or to take any steps whatever, under Orders in Council of June 12, 1870, published in the Gazette making regulations for the sale of certain lands, known as Piako Swamp, until the House lias bad an opportunity of discussing the said Orders in Council.” Ministers opposed the request as inopportune. Upon a division being taken; there were 35 for,and 25 against. Sir G. Grey then moved the motion. Sir Julius Vogel then explained that Ministers had no desire whatever to burke discussion or enquiry ; that as the matter would be in exactly the same position, a fortnight hence, that it was then, and as open to discussion, nothing was to be gained by pressing the motion along. An animated debate followed. At the conclusion, Sir G. Grey asked leave to withdraw his motion, but Mr J, C. Andrew objecting, a division was taken the numbers being 20 for, *29 against it. The Speaker then gave hw casting vote with the noes. in order to afford a further opporlunity for discussion. 'Fhe House then adjourned at 5.30 to 7.3). Sir K. Douglas moves the address in cp’y, an 1 Mr Bastings seconds it. ycs:*« ~wg. , *arry 'raay-- \rz/xsasKat

The Wellington ,/J /■//».< has the following: —There is a gentleman who’ preaches on llu“ Queen's wharf every Sunday evening when the weather is favorable. Last Sunday night he di<l so, but in the middle of bis discourse two of bis bearers got up a discussion as to whether the Primitive Methodist or the Christian Israelite was the older body. After a lengthy conversa. lion on the subject, they found (bat their views differed, and it was agreed that the best way to decide which was the older' sect was to fight it out. This they did t and confusion reigned supreme. Sergeant Price happened to be hovering around, and he pounced on the combatants. One of them got away, but the other was to the lock-up. The congregation deserted the preacher, and followed the sergeant and his prisoner to the police-station, yelling and hooting like demons. Sergeant konaghau heard the noise, and rushed out to the gate with a stick, and flourishing it in the air, he warned the mob not to como too close. He is well known to be very fond of a case, and we believe that it was only the insufficiency of cell accommodation’that induced him to clear the people off.

The New York Times says that three cartloads of silkworm eggs, said to be worth G,000,000 dollars, arrived in New York in one day, from San Francisco, on their way to Europe. Wheat, says the Sdentfiic American , is the proper grain to give hens which are kept for laying eggs, as it possesses albumen and lime for the shell, and fat for the yolk. Hens fed on corn will fatten, but do not lay in winter, because there is no albumen in the corn. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.—Self Help.—ln sicknes it was a momentous matter to find an easy, ready, and reliable emedy for outward disfigurations and inward disorders until these inestimable preparations were made known. No invalid need now be at a loss in successfully managing ulcers, sores, tumors, boils, sprains, &c. Enveloping Holloway s medicines are very intelligible printed directions for using them, which should be attentively studied, and immediately followed by all who resort to his tieatment. Sooner or later the sufferer will assuredly triumph over the worst diseases. This searching Ointment disperses all those malignant humors which aggravate diseases of the skin, prevent the cicatrization of ulcers, and-every kind of inflammatory tendencies in the system.