POLITICAL NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2706, 1 September 1894, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

(Lyttelton Times Correspondent.) Wellington, August 30.

It is proposed that the House shall sit on Monday evening next to consider private members’ Bills. Captain Russell will to-morrow ash the Minister of Public Works it he will obtain a report from an actuary whether the £618,260 proposed to be given to the Midland Railway Company will be sufficient to provide interest at 4 per cent for fourteen years on the sum of £1,250,000, the estimated cost of completing the railway from Patterson’s Creek to Jackson’s, and if more than sufficient, by how much; also, a report a 8 to what the total cost to the colony will amount to at the end of the fourteen years next ensuing after payment of the first sum of £200,000 of dk per cent debentures. A voluminous petition was presented by Major Steward this afternoon. It was from southern electors, asking that the passing of the Licensing Bill be delayed until the country has had an opportunity of considering and expressing an opinion upon its provisions. When, unrolled it covered the floor of the House from the Speaker’s chair right back to the bar of the House.

Mr Buddohas given notice of a question asking the Government to raise the import duty on wheat from 9d to Is 2d per 1001 b, and on flour from 20s to 30s per ton. Mr Maslin presented a petition signed by twenty-six persons praying for a railway siding at Belfield. Mr Maslin is trying to persuade the Postmaster-General to open a money - order office at Orari.