Parliamentary.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3243, 29 June 1889, Page 2

Parliamentary.

! d House of Representatives.! Ib; .win answer -to questions, it 'was of stated; .that;;j Governmenfc- did: not A : intend to' introduce a Ratepayers ,n Mutual Insurancd ; bill, this < session, ig With respect to the-San Francisco 10 . mail eervice, ■ Government hoped jto !g be able to make proposals during the d, session. Government intended/to q. introduce a bill giving relief lo Crown W tenants; Government would get full 10 enquiries mado'iii England in referit ence to the use to wiiioh flftx is put. id- Tlie,Minister : of Jußticß: WO ly wliat proposals' lie intended invreferM . ence to a police superannuation fuiidj: 16 Tlie consideration of the Estimates! [i. occupied' l the' i remainder of , ;;the pt afternoOn': :i arid :^'eyening of The vote Supreme Court; £7599, Je although,' 'ultimately .r pasßed 1 ' caufied ee iflisctislaion. Tho.questimi 3 d why the ltegistrar at Wellington g4ta L 815: as against WOO, paid to other Registrars' ;was!.raised, 'and. [the Minister.'expiamed that that ;Was iu becausei the : Wellington officer,:.wa,3 a youngj & the m other Begis trars were geritl einen w|io is W gfown groy in the soryico. !Mr ■r,' Izard ; siigges ted - that; i the; office was jj. not-one to which a young man oroiie J6 without experience should be ap* pointed. - -The Minister said .the id lie W filfil: the v duties' of; tlie: tile' office, li o which, indeed, he had filled a year bofore ;his appointment.' Mr- Fish ■ asked whether the gentleman ap8n pointed was the person for whom he pf had stated last year the'office'Was as being " kept wwm," in order that i W he might pass his legal examination. Ihe ...Minister; paid it was, Dr Fitohett asked whether it was true that the Dupuly-Begistrar was also the soil of a Government officer until ho fell ill. (Laughter). Tlie Minister said he could not give the family rt history of every, oivil servant, Dr us Fitohett asked who was the deputy ? The; Minister said Mr Thomas! j A )0 brpther'of the present' Eegistrar had • not; been' Deputy. Mr Fitzherbert said the Minister evidently knew little about it. While Mr D, G. A. Cooper.acted as Registrar, his brother • Mr ; Guy,. Cooper,' acted as Deputy, i in; The Minister saitf T the: only Depvity j id appointed before Mr, Thomas was Mr I ... Dr G, A, Cooper,\but- an extra clerk ... in the Government service was employed, who was a son of the • Under-decretory for the Colony. ,Mr Fitzherbert: offered ..to I 'produce i a document with -Mr Guy Cooper's ... signature as deputy-Registrar upon :i it; ; > -Progress i,was, reported 1 and the. House rose at 10.25. te v.y.. ■■ ' ''y'. ,