PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3913, 14 July 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

[By TeliEgbaph.]

(fbom our special cokbespondbnt.) Wellington, This day.

Extreme apathy characterised the proceedings of the House yesterday, it having become known that the Premier would, as early in the evening as possible, move the adjournment in order that members might attend a ball at Government House.

Assuming that but for the adjournment the House would have sat for several hours longer, a calculation has been made, based on amount of honarariums and the average duration of the sessions, shewing that in honorariums alone, about £130 ot public money was thrown away by this adjournment. This of course is a mere tithe of the loss to the country through adjournments on frivolous pretexts.

Warm on Delegates.

A new style of thing.

As respecting the absurdity of sending delegates on small matters to Wellington, it may be stated that at a meeting of three of the Inangahua County Council, they elected two of their members to proceed to Wellington as a deputation to interview the Premier, at same time voting £75 for expenses. The deputationists have been politely but firmly requested to return whence they came, and send their requests in writing.

THE LAW PBACTIONEBs' BILL

Sir George Grey's bill for removing the restrictions relative to the admission of persons to practice the profession of the law is very brief, and consists of one clause excepting that which contains the short title. The following is the text of the second clause :—" Notwithstanding any law in force in the colony relative to the admission of persons to be barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court of the colony, from and afier the passing of this Act every person of the full age of twentyone years, and of whose good fame and reputation, and of whose learning any one or more judges of the said Court-shall be satisfied, and in such manner as may from time to time be prescribed by the judges of the said Court, shall be entitled to be admitted and enrolled without fee as a barrister and solicitor of the said Court, and generally to the practice of law, and to all rights aod privileges thereof. White, at the presentation of the prize to Hearn last night, was asked his opinion regarding the suitability of Wellington Harbor for rowing, and stated that he had been led to believe that; be might as well pull in Cook's Straits as in Port Nicholson Harbor; but, from what he had seen of it, it was fire times more adapted for pulling than Auckland Harbor.