POLITICAL NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4158, 8 July 1892, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

MULTUM IN PAEVO, ' The Licensed Victuallers' Compensation Bill, which it is expected will evoke a fierce debate, is piloted by Mr Lawry and is an "Act to provide for compensation for those suffering without fault from the non-renewal of publicans' license." The payment of fees has been already set forth in the Press. The important clause is No, 8, which is as follows j—e There shall bo payable out of the fund reasonable copipensatiop in respect of the loss which may be provpd to have been sustained by person who, at or after the ooming into operation, heingthe holderofa publican's lioense, shall be refused a renewal thereof on the ground that the house is not wanted in the neighbourhood, or some equivalent ground, but not on any of the other grounds mentioned iu section eighty-one of the said Act, nor for any ground of forfeiture. Such compensation shall be ascertained by the Court hereinafter constituted on the footing of the license so refused being dewed to be a Ijcense apnpally renewable for a reasonable period, to be determined by tho Court in its I discretion according to the circumstances of each case." It also provides that all persona affected by refusal of license shall receive compensation,

The fifteenth annual report of the Minister pf Education has been tabled, It shows that for iB9l there were on the spHopl foils of ihe colony 120,892 PHpils, of whom 80.$ per "petit;' were It) ayefasp s}e ajjstrapt 1 of Boards' accounts shews p, h.alancpof unusually large dimensions, vifs,, 1"b 3d, the building gFftnt not having bpen flll usefl. Jive Boards have not effected a saving out of the maintenance fund.

The Minister for Justice has informed Mr Sherft that Government have no intention of abolishing capital punishment. Captain Eusseli says that the Minister for Lpds is neglecting the East Coast distriflt, and by taking poy one of their best officers has left the Stock Department in a weak and. inefficient state. '

Mr Buokland declared with assumed indignation that the Rabbit Law has been broken before the eyes of Ministers in Wellington, when a rab.bit

was produced -on tbe stage of the Opera House • and no policeman chased it, andno prosecution followed. Mr U'Conor suggested that perkipa that rabbit was of" the right colour." .Replying to Mr Valentine yesterday, the Minister for Lands said that; the Stock Department had.not power to direct how rabbits should be kept down, but merely that they should be kept down. Mr T, Mackenzie says the Premier has professed to have reduced the public debt of the Colony by £117,000, instead of which he has inoreased it by £BOO,OOO. The Minister for Lands says that he will soon be able to give the colony a olean bill of health as to scab,