POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4155, 4 July 1892, Page 3

POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

MULTUM IS PARYO.

The Native Minister says the police arodninj; their best to suppress sly grog selling in the King Country. The Piemier constnorß that the House will have nmple opportunity of considering thequpstion of compensation toW. B. Edwards.

Government approvo ol local rating f' bodies having power to ewropt improvements, but fear there will be no time to introduce the necessary Bill this spssion. The Premier is having a Bill prepared, in caso there is any chance of its going through, The Piemier holds that if workmen only worked seven hours a diy, the general wagos fund would be juet as great. ■Mr M'Lean doesn't think that Mr Rolleston, or even Mr Gladstone, could get in for Thorndon if that Aristocratic suburb was made a single electorate, The Costley Home, with its numerous inmates, is in Mr Buckland's constituency, and he says that its vote oan decide any election in that district. Mr E, M. Smith wants to see the Government introduce a Bill for the payment of the expenses of successful candidates. Mr M'lnlosh, like many other tnem bers, has a grievance against the Boundaries Commissioners, who, he <k announced with thunderous emphasis, ™ thought nothing of crossing rivers for a couple of rotes. Mr W, M'Lean considers that women have" much mow electricity, and much moreattraction, than men." Hon members agreed, The Premier denies that he has any intention of introducing a Bill to make Legislative Councillors elective. Sir John Hall says that many arc alarmed at the possibility of the passing of Femaie Suffrage involving a dissolution. Ho has consulted tho Premier, who assures him that such isnothisopinisn, Mr Buckland told Mr McLean that he did not get into the House on his own character, but crawled in ™ the backs of Ministers. If the Civil Servants had not voted for him they were brave men, se • many a man had been discharged for less. Mr MoLean had . come into wonderful prominence, in bis own estimation, but in Auckland they were asking who this wonderful specimen of humanity was.