POLITICAL NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11636, 7 November 1887, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

— -♦ . [By Telegraph. J (speoial to the chrowiole.) Wbllin-Hon, November 5 In answer to Mr Goldie, wbo is a prominent Blue Bibbonist member, as to iow many clubs now in the colony have Jomplied with sub-section 1 of section 226 of the Licensing Act, the following list has been given :— Tattersall's at 3hristcburoh, Port Chalmers, Canter* -ury, Working Men's at Mangawai, Wauganui, Sydenham, Wellington Central, and New Plymouth. The following is the sub-seotion referred to:— The oommittee of every olub to whioh the oharter has been granted shall send to the Oolonial Seoretary, daring January in each year, a certificate tbat the said olub continues to fulfil all the conditions on whioh the oharter was granted, and the statement from the borough, county, or road distriot within which. tho olub iB situated that the fee of five pounds has been paid. Those of the members who are notde* voted followers of Sir Georgo Grey, but prefer occasionally to band their elbows, are loudly grumbling at the now ukase of the House Oommittee, whereby all spirits with soda served from Bel* lamy's are to be oharged 9d instead of the traditional 6d. Some of the older hands, who have a knack of dropping into the establishment pretty frequently, threaten to boyoot the present regime. The very eccentric member for Dunstan is reported to be conoooting a specially satirical motion on the subjeot for next week. Although Saturday is always - a slack day at the House, the importance of tho present situation as to the Midland Bailway question oaused ft good deal of animated gossip in the lobbies. There . ; is a strong seotion of the House Who ace determined to prevent in every way the possible passing of the xeßolutiohl, blithe combination of Canterbury with the. staunoh Ministerialists renders a certain early satisfactory solution of the di-B-oulty. Had a division been pressed 'for on Friday night, the Govejnjnettfc would' have had a certain majority, ! as the whips reoeived 69 definite promised tb vote with the- ayeß- „.«». The Hob. 3. A. B. Menzies is the recognised ohampion in the Legislative Council of Bible reading in schools. He presented no less than 72 petitions on the Bubjeot yesterdayj many of which were . signed by women resident in Otago* The Hon H. XL Taiaroa sug&uiteii* yesterday, in the Iqvm'ql a,qjae|fid-i, ' the desirability of legislating iti thfe direction of enabling th& fjfpmriy].(?f- a native who dies intsestater to be| digppsed,' of for purpose of iiquidating.^hiß'Ubta. 1 1 The AttornaysGeneralsa.^Ep.Mul^not'^; promise to bring in a speowl w^n thd subject, but added that the; suggeetion appeared to be a reasonable pn^ t an& it would be considered whenever a nativp bill was being. prepared. ' ?,;2 ' Some interesting, . details as > W» the: education system df the colony i are to be gathered from the statement laid on . the table of the Houbo. by the ' Minister ; for Education. The averagSatt6nd*r.be ',' for the year was 83, 495, and the COBt-peif' head of average attendance was £&. 16s Bd, For sohools having less than, [QQ '', ohildren eacb, the' cost was £o Us 7d ; ' in schools of between 50 and 100 each it was £3 19s 4d, and in latter Hob.odl» £3 3s 6d each. In Victoria the oost per head on average ' attendance 1 is i 24 3s 9£d ; in New South Wales, M iia^jpid • I in South Australia, £4 ls Id; in Qufiensland, £4 Bs. The ages to wbich^fempulsbry clauses apply in difi_ererit,cplonies are as follows :— -New Sbt-tk Wales, 6 to 14; Queensland, 6 to l-Jj Victoria, 6 to 16; Tasmania,- 7 tb 13; ■ South Australia, 7 to IBj; Nes Zeal land 7 to 13. It will-^thufe ti*: -eeefai that our Bystem is a much cheaper one than those of other, coloiUes, whilst its effieienoy has iievet heen questioned. ' ". ."-.-.-- . ";■•- / ■■-. ; Mr W. F. Pearson, ; ia asking, yesterday, his question with regard to . the advisability of putting down rdwdwesW at election meetings, expressed./, the opinion' that the police should'; lie instructed to " persecute" ; in; ' each _ oases, Of course the hon gentle* man meant prosecute, and the;wror waV merely, a .apsus linguae, bnt.:t_i«.' todfnsioi. of terms caused pfrtJa.", iimuili* , ment. i