POLITICAL POINTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7994, 4 December 1905, Page 3

POLITICAL POINTS.

CHITS FHOII MR MASBET S STUMP. "The -whole pronperity of this colony depends on «. eucciwitul laud poli«Jt" • • • • "■nm Premier ought to have toM you he Totcfl againut the first Advances ;to Settlers Act himself."

'"The IV«nior says -the Litm! Com* mission cost the colony £IO,OOO. It was not worth 10.000 ponce—tho money was absolutely wasted." • • • « "The Premier is trying to interfere with the will of the young propic. and trying to keep out of ParU'tter men than ho himself." "There are better friends of the workers to be 'ound on the Opposition side than amongst the members occupying the (JoTornmentbetiches m .the House." "The Premier is Minister of Lands Just as he is Minister of everything else." said Mr Massvy. "Ami a *ery good Minister foe is, too.' 1 came a voice 'rom the dress circle. » • * * "The wave of prosperity enjoyed lathis colony has bwn caused bv the unprecedented demand of other countries for every articlr that we produce. Our producers rose to the occasion and satisfied the -demand.'* • « • • "I want, the party with which I am wants, to see that every youlfc shall, in respect to qualification* for position?? in the Civil Service. I*' placed on the same Iwel as the family o' the Premier himself." * • » I "The Government has been doing food work in improving tho education system during the past few years, but we want to go further ;o that the brainy youth with ambition may be able to go right up to the University! without payment*::' # » » •, When dealing with the Land, Commission'!* report ia th* Hous*. Mr y saya ha moved an amend, i'lent tkih' House is competent to deal with the land question." The majority of the members voted against it. This, -he took t, was an admission of weakness on the part of the Government. • 4 • • "The ir«n who calls the Government of which Sir Harry Atkinson wan the heed, a Conservative Government, is either mislead ng you ir he doesn't understand the po«i|ion. Sir Harry Atkinson was the most lilieral Ktatvsman that the colony ever bad.-'

An unconscious bull by Mr lfassoy, when speaking of one of the Premier *■ impassioned addresses -in the North : "You cculd bear tke tears in his Youce, you couW almost Cho tears in tts tyvs, you could heard a pin drop, until »onwom> in the gallery said 'Don't make us cry, Dick.' " # # • » "I don't think I am (ar wrong it I claim to I>e the loader, not -only of lTis Majesty's Opposition, but also of the Young New Znaland party and tbe fact that out of 66 Opposition candidates now in field thre* arc young New Zealanders, shows clearly that the intclligmce of the young: New Z*?a!anders is with tha Opposition, not with the GcTeramint." « ■ « ■ "The salaries of certain officials, the Ministr? 1 " memrJ*ariramrnt, *re fixed hy Statute, aird should not l>o altered except by an amendment of the law. But tbe Public Revenues Act of gives power to alter these salaries by a vote on the' Supplement ary Estimates. thus curtailing the powers cf the ami putting too 'mucK ptfßTr the hands of Ministers of th-- Crown."

"Are the legislative Councillors responsiMe to the people? Not a •>it of t. Tliey are responsible to the Right Honourable tha * Preniier him?»elf. Thej- hare only one constituent." Mr Massey considered th® duties of the mc-mbera of the T'pper lloum were just is important as those of the Lower House. • • « « "Ini*ti<Hl of flying wnrlHi.£S)*>o *a year and travelling expenses, soma nieml/ers of the Council are not w</rth pence. . . r J'he Premi-r talks of abolishing the Vpper House ; he can't do it. TVe can reform it, Iwi th#> Council is part of our C<mstitution, «nd \e cannot wij>e it out. . . . 'At

pnwnt you hav«| a L<*gislfttiTe Council of which you have no reason to l>e prowl—it is neither useful nor ornamental.' 1 **-

Hie Xt'W Zealand Times remarks : "On the assumption that cities take th« lead in advanced movements, this would indicate that independent Lilieralism is to bo the politico] 'cult' of the near ,'utura in New Zealand." • ■ • • Sp>-akiny at Newtown Pr. Chappie said it would hove been more humane and just to have made a cotiossimi 'o agttl women l>y granting them the old-age pension *t o<>. instead of 65, before making conc.nsions to men. He held that a penniless woman at 00 was more helpless and deserving thrm a penniless man at 60, « ■ • ■ "Tears ago," taya Mr Taylor, in a manifesto on the land question, ■'public men responsible for the administration of the colony a affairs wisely made n-servf* in the inter■fitß of national educat on consisting of 1,185.r>22 acres. 'lhe annual revenue to-dev of these education reserves is £89.735. If 'his £VO.7:t."» had to be taken in addition to the CGOO.'JOO now Toted annually lit Parliament, the taxirayers' burden would be increased by t.iat amount. Aljout half of 4he revenue from lh>-so reserves is ear-marked for High School and University education"

"It ta a iTgrcttaWr fact that people oro bHng driven ou * young country through inability to get the land t6ey require,* •'■aid -a PtfUuKstafS candidate fn Wellingfon Uia otbci night, 110 went on to fcdd ftal thousands upon thousands Of jn-opbj had Irmi drivt-n out of liri-ai ISritaili through lack of availably land, while great .tracts of good land were locked up as deer sancturies. Thai ri'inindt .1 him that in the Wairarapa land hat! reserved 03 1 deer sanctuary. Ho said at once it was a wrong principle to allow t tis locking up of laml for studi a purpose, ai l to all 'w tlii' sl.n in:; i.>r sport*of ih.-so tfauliinl animals. who had their rights as wo hod. He would be no iwirty to encouraging sport of that kind in New /x-aland. I 4. * • • The Wellrng-ton Free Lance has this «torvto tell :-<>>'.<• of those mysterious inridnit* round which, no doubt, a Virv -ould be written if the part lari were known, occurred en I nWon Quay, near the Club Ib'til „ f,.w .lays ago. A rather swell-look-ing young man was driving- along in a tab. w!i"M suddenly he leaned out <1 th' l window, and told the caboy to [.nil up. He i hi'ii alighted, 'and, rushing to the footpath, .made a violent attack upon ain't h.-r swell-look-ing young ii'.in, who w.is "diring the bl. i k." N'.iSMrijr 1< '!>. Number Two

I-!.ilia!-.1 v.'iili much viuour, and in then a minute the two wre follin<r in th* <!ust. pimmiellin* ««<• *»- >' n r \urnl»: - <•' ,l 1" ol»- L '"' considerable the HT-I of tile deal, in i had to I.' !a L i r. across to Dr. Henri's "i get pnt< »hj*l up, while lumber Two dusted himself and resumed his walk. The whole business onlv occupied about three minutes. Now, what on earth was behind it all ? A million pounds tc a peanut —a woman!