PARLIAMENT DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 76, 8 July 1910, Page 5

PARLIAMENT DAY BY DAY.

BIBLE IX oCrtOOLS. By Telegraph-Special Parliamentary Correspondent. Wellington, Last Night. A circular issued by the Wellington Householders' League repeats some of the arguments used in the past to support the plea for a referendum on the -Bible in Schools question. The circular mentions dootors' and school teachers' opinions, and European audi American methods in favor of Bible reading. The result of the Queensland! referendum in fa,vor *. .uu«e reading is 1 emphasised. Here is the most important portion of the ....,.„„«. m Canada, at Ontario, the Bible is read daily. The ten commandments must be repeated once a week. At Saskatchewan, the Board may permit religious instruction in schools. In New Brunswick the Bible is read in schools. In New South Wales the Irish National School Scripture Lesson Books are read. In Tasmania instruction in sacred history! i 6 imparted. In West Australia the Scripture lessons are given orally, and to impress the value of the Scriptxfes as a basis of moral instruction' the ten commandments and the Lord's prayer are taught. In South Australia religious instruction is optional. In England the Bible is read. In Ireland, either the Douay Testament or the authorised version' is read, und each school is furnished with a "Ten Commandments Tablet," to be hung on the wall. In Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Bible is read daily. Iu Austria, two hours per week are devoted to religious instruction. In Belgium two hours are given to moral instruction per week. In Prussia four hours per week, in Berlin four hiours per week, in Hamburg two hours per week. Germany banished the Bible from her schools, but has now restored it. In France moral instruction is given for three hours a week. In Cape polony the Bible is read daily. In the Orange River Colony Bible his-, tory is taught. In Egypt the Koran ia' read daily, and scholars are taught the necessity of religion to man. In Japan morals and industry are taught." j

THE RENO FIGHT PICTURES. There os much feeling anent the Reno fight, and, an attempt, headed by 'Mr. T. E. Taylor, to get the Government to move legislation for the purpose of forbidding the cinematographic representations which have figured so largely in the accounts from the scene oi operations, will be made. POWELKA AGAIN. Powelka and another have their ease before the Appeal Court, with the view of raising the question of their being declared habitual criminals to-day. WATER POWER. In re the water power, the Prime Minister made it clear to a deputation from Canterbury, which talked about the Lake Coleridge project, that the Government has taken up this matter of tJhe water power only because it saw that there were plans for making exorbitant profits by exploiting them. This does not, in the opinion of some keen observers, make it appears as if the Gioverniment's intention to do anything about the annual expenditure of naif a million a year, announced in the Budget, were immediately serious. We snail see,

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING. "Still harping on my daughter." One is reminded of the saving of. Shylock by the persistence with which Mr. Massey is trying to get hold of a return of the Government advertising in minute detail. PHOSPHORUS MATCHES.

Mr. Buddo's Bill, known as the "Phosphorus Matches Bill," is devised for the suppression of "phossy jaw" in the Dominion. It provides for the exclusion of the white phosphorus which is the cause of "phossy jaw."