Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4216, 6 July 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[By Telegbaph.] j (FROM OUB OWN CORRBSPONDENT./ j Wellington, Last night. Your late Inspector of Miners' Rights, Mcllhone, is here urging his claim for compensation for loss of office. A good deal of correspondence has taken place with regard to the manner in which your late detective has been used, and it is likely an inquiry into the matter will be held. The Post says : It is understood that the proposals submitted by the Standing Orders Committee for the amendment of parliamentary procedure with a view to facilitating the despatch of business are not likely to be adopted by the House. We believe the Government will oppose them on the ground that they would have the effect of giving such an under proportion of parliamentary time to " prin vate" business and so would block the way of Government business to such an extent as to render it impossible to get the necessary public work done. Over 200 local bodies have answered Major Atkinson's circular re local government. This day. An important matter affecting the position of prisoners in gaol and their friends is about to be brought under the notice of Parliament. The allegation is that since Hume assumed the office as Inspec- i tor, extraordinary restrictions have been j placed on visits of relatives to their friends. The particular case in point is that of a wife who, it is alleged has not been allowed to see her husband for many months, and who, acting on advice from others) has refrained from complaining to the visiting justices lest revenge should be taken on her husband in the shape of deprivation-of ordinary necessities. The matter is likely to give rise to a close investigation, and in the meantime whether the allegation be true or not, care will be taken that the husband does not suffer on account of the complaint being made. The prisoner in question formerly occupied a good position in society.