Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4249, 14 August 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[By Tele&baph.] (fbom oub own correspondent.)

Wellington, Saturday

Hutchison gave notice that he will move on going into Committee of Supply that the teaching of trades and employment of skilled labor in gaols are regarded by this House as inimical to an enlightened system of prison discipline, and prejudicial to the interest of free skilled labor in this country, and that it is desirable that such teaching of trades and employment of skilled labor should be discontinued as soon as possible. The Native Affairs Committee report in the case of Rapata Pakeha as to the Thames County Council building a bridge over the Ohinemuri .River at Paeroa, and that his objection to the bridge being built was removed by his being promised that a house should be built for him at Paeroa: That there seems to have been a promise made by Mr Sheehan. but how far it extended is not cJear. In 1880 Mr Bryce recommended petitioner to apply to the County Council for compensation; nothing seems to have come of this. The Coonnittee consider that the matter should be carefully gone into and redress given if there be a grievance. It recommends therefore that the attention of the Government should be given to the case.

Robert Graham petitioned for the recognition of a right to 50 acres of land at Ellerslie which he alleged to have purchased in 1845, and the Waste Lands Committee report that the petitioner has failed to establish any claim.

Eetarn of monies paid to Crown Solicitors, Crown Prosecutors, and others for 12 months ending March 31, 1882 •— Auckland: Brookfieid, £199 7s 6d; Williamson, £396 6s 4d. Gisborne : Rogan £56 4s 8d ; Nolan, £32 17s Bd. Napier • Cotterill, £69 6s. New PlymouthStandish, £209 Os 2d. Patea: Barleyman, £58 10s. Wanganui: Fitzherberfc, £224 19s. Wellington: Bell, £234 11s Ai. Nelson: Fell,£3o6sßd. Blenheim: Sinclair, £14 9s Bd. Hokitika: South, £96 Is; Perkins, £44 9s 4d. Christchurch : Duncan, £369 17s. Timaru * White, £157 19s 7d. Oamaru: Hislop, £13 Os Bd." Duuedin ; Haggett, £464 19s Bd. lurercargill: McDonald, £150 10s 4d. Expenses of witnesses, £5873 17s 9d.

This day. The Times this morning has a paragraph

that another motion of want of confidence is coming, and that heads are counted at 47 and 47, but the statement is a canard, although the Government believed in its truth yesterday. Much bitterness is felt at the pair breaking on the division.