Political Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7865, 6 July 1905, Page 4

Political Notes.

The "New Progressive Party" as- | scrted itself in the debate ou Imprest Supply. Tlie lit si ol the coterie was Mi Bedford, who lashed right and left. The next was Mr Fisher, I tin- junior member for Wellington, with his maiden speeeh. He was generously applauded on rising. lie ;:t once proceeded to deline his position in the House. He Wasn't going wait till the end ot the session to do il, and warned the House to know it forthwith. He asked the Premier Why he had not been asked to move the Addrress-in-Reply, as would have been done to any other member on the Government side of the Housp. In answer to an interjection from the premier, Mr Fisher sahl be would not have moved the Address-in-Keply if asked. "All right," rejoined the Premier, "why waste time in asking you ?" Mr Fisher was not going to be bound by precedent or custom in regard to what a young member should do. When the Defence Estimates came down he was going to fight the Premier for every penny of (lie vote. That was what he had been sent to the House for. Then lie said what lie thought of the Defence Department. Mr T. F'. Taylor, the stormy petrel of the House, declared that if the Minister of Education was attending to his duty there would be n» need for a special committee to deal with educational matters.

The first division of the present. | session was on the motion to set up the Railways Committee ot thirteen members, proposed by the Minister of Railways. Mr Massey divided the House as to whether the number should be ten or thirteen members. The vote was a party one, Sir Joseph Ward's proposals being carried by 39 to 21. Thus Mr Wilford :—"Sir Joseph Ward has done great things for the railways. What he has done in re« gard to classification of the service and a superannuation fund, among other things, will make his name to he remembered, as far as railway finance is concerned, for all time." The whole incident of the Shops ami Offices Bill has, not unnaturally, revived the question of the constitution of the Legislative Council. It has been suggested that the Lords may, in a spirit of perversity, decline to agree to any amendment ol the Act of last year in the direction suggested. The Premier has several remedies for such a course, and his ultimatum in such an extremity, he humorously informed the Leader ol the Opposition, would be to "go to the country," and they could then formulate a protest against the action of the Government,. Mr Richmond Beethain, lately Stipendiary Magistrate at Christehurch, is petitioning Parliament for a pension in lieu of £1229 compensation granted him. * * * * Mr Jennings wants the Minister of Defence to make application to the Horse Guards for discharge-papers of Private John McGrath, 2nd Battalion 14th Foot, of Taumarunui, anil all others who may be similarly circumstanced, whose papers and discharges have gone astray through the fault of the last Commission set up to inquire into the claims of tliose who served in the lmi>erial forces in this colony, and who were applicants for land ?

"STILL WELL TO-PAiV «'uml nearly threo years ago" is good. But "still well to-day " is better. We have boon investigating :nany cases in New Zealand that v,.-is' cired years ago, but it is :gratiiv.Mg to realise the large number •vl;ii cheerfully i-uy *• Yes, still well iu

i'..es this apply to you ? arc \uu | .-ill!- well to-day V Mave you found a n.. . icine to cure you to stay c,ned ? '! • ease under investigation was li: i published here nearly three \.m.s ago. The patient at the tini : i ■* reported cured by Doan's F.aeku'i • kidney Fills. The statement is v-v'iied to-day and the cure .shown to h.r. been lasting. ! = . ou are ill aiud are using Doan's Ba/kache Kidney Tills may you be abl" to say one year hence or ten vein's hence what is said by this citizen of New Plymouth:— " Yes, still well to-day." Mr Samuel Loveriuge, Fulford St., New* Plymouth, says " For a good ahi le now I have suflercd with pains iti (lie small of my back. These attacks came, on and oft', amd at..'times \ ei.> so bad that I hod to knock oft

ork, owing to the agony [ was in. ! could not stand straight after bnmling. I wore flannel belts, ns • his was my only means of relief uniii I got Doan's Backache Kidney Pills a few months ago at the Cooperative Store. These pills cured me. I have been free of the pains •.".or since 1 used them. I can strongly recommend all working men who suffer a 9 I did to give them a trial." Mrs Loveridge confirms the above statement, by saying "Mr Love•idgo is still well. He used a few l H;.\es of Doan's Backache Kidney Tills some two and a-half years ago and they made a permanent mro in his case. They are very good .>i 11 s and ave recommend them to all who suffer with the kidneys." Tako no substitute. Kemember it s Doan's Backache Kidney Pills which Mr and Mrs Loveridge recommend and there is nothing "just as good" as this remedy for backache •i;ul kidney trouble. Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are okl by all chemists and storekeep- •! s at 3s per box (six boxes 16s d) or will be posted''or receipt of I .rice by Foster MeCleliam Co., 7G ' "'itt-Street, Sydney, N.S.W. But be sure you as"k for DOAN'S.