Parliamentary.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 116, 17 October 1901, Page 3

Parliamentary.

At a caucus of the Government party held at Wellington on Tuesday about forty were present. . The official report supplied by the whips states that it was decided that some thirtytbree Bills should be slaughtered, among the number being the Young Persons' Protection, the New Zealand University Act Amentment, Land and Live Stock Auctions, Fair Reut, State Fire Insurance, Discount Stamps, Rating on Unimproved Values Act Amend merit, Products Export and Orchard arid Garden Pests. A discussion took place on the Federal tariff in its bearing on New Zealand products and trade. The Premier said the imported products of Australia which would be brought under special review would be refined sugar, fruits, timber, coal. Australian wines, oils, salts, arid fumkuro, and he laid special strais on coal, sugar, fruits, timber, and es peciaHy in respect to making a duty in favour of sugar. refined in the colony. It was also announced that there is "to bo an amendment of the Worta-'r's Oompenwation far Accidents Act in the direction of allowing mortgagees to remain secured, and exempting casual labour, and practically bringing the act into line with the English Act. The Premier assured the caucus that if the Estimates were finished this week there was nothing to prevent the session ending the first week in November.