PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1938, 3 September 1889, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times telegraphs

TEE UNEMPLOYED.

Ton will remember that the member for St. Albans took exception te sending the Christchurch unemployed to work on the Bealey road at the present inclement season of the year, when snow is lying among the ranges. An effort has since been made to induce the Minister for Lands to send the unemployed to the Kaikoura road instead. Mr Perceval, however, has received the following letter from the Minister refusing this surely not unreasonable request: —“ The Unemployed.—Sir, —With reference to your remarks on the subject of work for the unemployed, I regret to state that as the works are approaching completion on the Kaikoura road, we do not require any more men there. With reference, however, to the works on the Bealey road, no ablebodied men who aro ready to be sent to those works are refused. —I have, &c., 0, F. Eichardson.” In a former issue we published a reply made by Mr Eichardson to the effect that men who could not work at the Bealey must live on charitable aid.

OTAStO CENTRAL. I hear on good authority that there is now no possibility of any proposals of importance being made with respect to the Otago Central this session. The Premier has not formally replied, but the idea is to let the whole thing stand over, it being manifestly impossible to do anything. Provision is made already to take the line to Middlemarch, and a small vote for surveys will probably be put ®n the {Supplementary Estimates,

NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR. The deputation from the New Plymouth Harbor Board tried its hand at private argument with several obdurate members of the House, I am told, hut without much effect. One member told the chairman that the only thing to be done for the harbor was to have it prayed for in the churches. Altogether the New Plymouth brethren got, I fear, very little satisfaction out of their trip, and went home sick at heart.