Parliamsntary. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 22, 18 July 1899, Page 3

Parliamsntary. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Recently, Mi* O'Aloai a, the member for Pahiatua, complained that a number of men hid been sent flora Wellington to ihe co opei Uive woiks at Woodville, while theie weio many local men who could not obtain a day's woik. Some of these had looked fOlf 01 waul to this Hoik, and weie bitteily disappointed at strung men impoitied to do the woik which the 7 weie moi>t anxious to obtain. Fiom a question p'aeed upon the Older Paper yesteiday, it appeals as if a smulai state of affairs exists neai Waunate. The mpmbei for Wriitalu has asked the Miniatei fo Public Woiks if he is awaie that a number of men have been sent by the Labom Depal tmenfc fioin Chvistohuich and Oamaiu to the load woiks at Waik.ikahi, and whether he will give duections that befoie lmpoihng moie men fiom a distance, employment on such woiks shall be given to the unemployed of Waimate. The member of Lyttelton is moving in the dnectioii of getting the 1 emulations alteied, so that all newspapers may be sent out of the colony to England at a uniform 1 ate of Id. At the piesent time the V'ost O'Jice officials exact from 2}d to 4d on most of the weekly papeiS punted in New Zea'and. The membei for Ashley is asking the P:emiei if the Ooveinment, when making fiesh appointments to the Legislative Council, will consider the clat?ns of the agiiculfcuial and pastoral hidnstiios of the cn'ony for pioportional lcpiesent.ifcion m that htanch of the Legislature, and appoint fjenllcmen who, fiom their personal ancl pvacfical knowlod^e of f.iimm«, will he in touch with agueaifcuial and pastoial pu 1 suits Mi Tayloi is moving that, in ths opinnn of this H6use, it is de-snable 111 the puhlio interest that the plans, specifications, and estimate of cost of all works exceeding 111 value to be eonstutcfed ipdei the co-oneiati\e s\stem, should bd avtu'.ib'e' for public inspection at the Public Woiks Offices in the piincipal town of the piovinee in which such^vovksnie situated. In a paper 1 jus.'t issued, 1 elating to the ri Anting of £-2000 to puUio hbia ies, it I"? sepn that Sooth Ganterbmy received £89 7s 9d, rlistiibuled as follows :— Fauhe £8 10s 3d, Gerald ine £6 Is Bd, Glen-itt £5 8s 6.1, Hunter £1 19s lid, Pareoia £5 14 4d, PJeasant Point £10 14s sd, llangitata £4 18s 3d. Temnka £7 15s lOd,' Timaru £16 7s 7d, Waimate £13 I2s Bd, Winchester £7 4a 4d. Timaru library has the biggest income for the pievious year, viz., £170 4s 6d, Waimate being second with £58 4s 6d. The maximum subsidy granted to any libiarj was JBI6

7s 7d, and the minimum £4 8s sd, some of the libraries thioj2;houf; the- colony which leceived the lattei* sum only reeori an income of £2. i *