THE ELECTORAL BILL. AN IMPORTANT MEASURE. Wellington, July 26.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 29 June 1889, Page 6

THE ELECTORAL BILL. AN IMPORTANT MEASURE. Wellington, July 26.

j Unquestionably the apiece de resistance of the session's legislation'wiinje the Electoral Bill, the introduction .of .which'-- will be moved by the Colonial Secrete ry^iovrards the end of the .weekly. The r. measure is not -yet oufe'of the Jiands of tHe, printer, but lJiayesblen-fa vou^ediwitniiihe princ&al , The* necessity of having a; KepreseafcatiDn Commission as_"..providedV'sby ' theßilFlof last .session^ is obyiated, as- it is "riiow proposed: that ' the "'colony shall be ■diyided/into fo.ur districts asfolldW:-* Aucjkland ., district, ■ .returning sixteen members. - „.,,., .' -„„;-' 1 WifcLiNTGTQN., Hawke's Bay arid "Tara•naki, 15 members! " J> ' ' .>' \ , , NELSO3STi MaRLBOKOUGJ£, GAiWEKBtTBY, and Westland,' .?fifch Chatham Iskandj 20 members.-, * ."Jl^., ,^c;^ i .',:^Hti' I .' OTAGO and S6vTHLANn,..with,^TEWART 5S5 S Island, 18 members.''' " . From time to time as each triennial election takes place,' 1 thernumber pf., members assigned to each district will vary according co the census. " ' The idea of haying the Danish of representation was previously intended by the Cabinet, but was .eventually reiect'ed in favour of the Hare, or more pr,operly speaking,}the Lubbock system,' in order that the cumbrous .machinery of the Act may be simplified. 1 •In cases of bye elections, subdivisions of districts will be made for the purpose of compiling rolls. Any, candidate who may be returned at .a .triennial election will be assigned^to the district in .which the largest proportion of his votes were cast. For instance,, if, \ Sir freorge^Qrey were elected for" Auckland, district and^ the returns showed that^lie polled most rheavily in , the Thames , subdivision ,- ' hie , would be known ast 'the-, • for • the Thames,. >andj -in i>the,' c.vent of* Bis tesfign atiqn the t p^eqp^e of , the • Thames • only could vote at the election of his .successor. The Bub'-divisipri of 1 the districts will be made- by - the - Gdvernqriin-Council, and though no decision^ has yet been come" fco by ( th,e Cabinet, .ibis probable that/isay Duneain for instance^ with, its environs, .constitute one Bub,-,divisi'on, returning five ( members. . . . \*"-'i- t l ; " '~"/f~ „ Adoption of' ,the s Hare, system " being an abstract question, . will^ not? betreated, SB«a ministerial, question^.thpugh Ministers/ n,bw seem tolerably sanguine, of carrying.it. Jj&t course in the treatment'of fttie Hare system; the question' of , the quota is no'traised/afi'd the, country is . not, K ljkely t to ■ be^arrayed against the town;as, r was..the?case;in Ijhe s Electoral Bill of last'ses'sipn. „ ,■.' --, V

Cardinal' Lavigerie/ 'speaking* the other day at Algiers, and in Reference to thegener osity towards Catliolic-charittes' shown" by English visitors, many of. w hom spend the ' winter-tn 1 that town/ gave' as follows^ a con- . versatidn^he bad once tiad'with" tliePoperespecting the 'people in question/H" ♦ So you like,the English ?\said His HolinWs*' Yes,' creplied, the'_ Cardinal, '<* r ljke ithe English ,Christfans, r Holy Father,' on account of their iHfi3aieV virtues,' ' of tishe) nobleiiessV'bf their lives -, and^«t> .their^ hayings retained l much inore'bf the Roman:Churoh7than other . PfortestantB^> but^ieispecially^on raccbuht of their, -sincerity : J which? allow usoto ho l pe as r _ to^ many ?<of . sthSem VthaV if '^jwe^- &ve L ' externally 'sepa'ratedl^weV/are,' internally " !unitedf?ina the /soulv ofci.bheVeamei Churchy IHbw desirable Jt'.would. be to'dee, these" fhopes 'realiBe*d«lr I'Sdesffe .it?as^much, : a8"" iypu-,e rejoined - His%Hqli'neBs r ;»^repeat'it to] . pyour iwheh an opportunify:^'. J?tie CardinaladdedthathV r\vas ing -the^Pope's X'commandH . :' ►Althoughtheretwere^utf^ew'EnglisH'pe jipresen^toifoearih^ ttp^nteEstbqro r ughlyfintofitHe|erc^^^^ fdf^irati9n||of)the'sPbpe P andfthe^ .whiptecannbt b^too^wideryniad^kifown,^^;