PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1844, 31 August 1874, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

; (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.): :; - ! - u <- —■'" ' '-'/■ HOUSE ..OF; KEPRESENTATIVES.' : WELtiNaTON, Saturday. : ' The'business of the House to-day was merely formal,'and waß adjourned till 2.30 p.m. on Monday, when Parliament will bo prorogued.

. : Mr J. Stewart; 0.K., in a paper entitled "notes on the origin of the mottled kauri," read bcforethe Auckland Institute, held that it was an : open question whether the mottling arose from a,n abnormal growth of the tree or was the result of disease; he rather inclined to the latter 'hypothesis. There was nothing analogous in the marks of the mottled kauri, and the beautiful spots which ornamented the bird'seye maple of Canada, the latter being probably caused by the enclosure of the buds-'during the growth of the tree. Mr Hay said the mottled kauri was not usually a denizen of lowiyiiig ground or valloys," but grew mora frequently in elevated situations. 'He regarded the -mottle as something in the nature of a deformity arising from somo organio disarrangement. The decrease in the population of France is attributed to mothers not'suckling their infants, as interfering with the-former's appearance in .society)'Jtonm the infant is gjyea to Home :ttQrcejwrjttUK|Bv "'";'' : ' . ■.. ■