PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.
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WELtJNG-TQN, Last night,
It would well repay any investigation made to peruse carefully a week's accumulation of petitions to the House. Some of them are prayers for the consideration of such cases as these—a man in pecuniary difficulties dies, and by his will leaves all his property to his wife. Upon inquiry into his affairs it is discovered that he has assigned most of his property to creditors, in liquidation of their claims, and the wife finds that she really has nothing coming to her; she therefore prays that Parliament may make such provision for her as they may deem meet. Another petitioner states that he is the oldest English native of the colony of New Zealand, and prays that some provision may be made for him in his old age. The trouble about exceeding to this modest request is that there would always be an " oldest inhabitant."
A question of interest to Friendly Societies was put to the Government today by Mr Hatch, member for Invercargill. Mr Hatch asked if the Government would make such a concession as will allow delegates of the various friendly societies to travel on Government railways at the excursion rates to their annual meetings of delegates. In reply, the Minister of Public Works said such concession would be made if a sufficient number of delegates were likely to travel by railway, and the matter would be looked into during the recess.
In reply to Mr Wakefield's question as to whether Government would afford the pioneers of the Belgian immigration to New Zealand facilities for visiting all parts of the colony, the Premier said that all possible assistance would be given by the Government to M. de Harven and his party, with the view to affording all available information for the purpose of their M. de liafvefl-cda^kwy Ji^yjadd that of a Belgian syndicate, which has placed two thousand pounds at his disposal in order that he may make a tour of New Zealand with a view to the introduction here of a very desirable class of Belgian small farmers.
Most of the evening sitting has been taken up with the Native Land Settlement Bill.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4938, 6 November 1884, Page 2
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367PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4938, 6 November 1884, Page 2
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