PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4227, 24 September 1892, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

The Free Conference on the Bankruptcy Bill met yesterday, when a compromise was come to between the Legislative Council and the Government. The Council abandoned the proposal to protect assignments of accruing debts to third pnrtioß, and to give landlords preference for nn« finished periods of i ent, Preference will now be given to six months' rent for the period actually passed. The Government agreed to accept the provision from the Tasmanian Act which enables creditors to recover money spent by a bankrupt on his wife's property, by permitting the Assignee to sell such property, deducting from the proceeds the amount so spent. It was also made compulsory for the bankrupt to come up for an order of discharge, The A to L Committee report that they have no recommendation to make on the petition of F, Jannett and others, of Hastwell, praying that the railway line between MangamahoG and Eketahuna bo fenced on both sides by the Government. Parliament yesterday entered upon its fourth month of session,

Mr T. Mackenzie says that Mi Hunter, a Glasgow expert just out told him that some of the Otago arte Southland factory-made butter coult not bo surpassed anywhere in tb< world,

Mr Taipua was very severe- in-ferentially-ou Government hasgetson in a recent debate. After saying that ho knew natives who had lost £BOO or £9OO through an officer whom he named, he added that the discredit of such things fell on the Government, for, he said, "they select their officers only from their own co"n panio'ns, whereas it is only the uprightness of the person which should be considered"— which was positively rasping when you como to think it 'out very hard. In the Couucil yesterday the Colonial Secretary, speaking with much warmth, told the Hon Mr Pharazyn, apropos of the Eleotoral Bill, that, if he were that hon, gentleman he would not retain his seat a day, as he was only in the Council on sufferance, and an appeal to the Privy Council would cost him his seat. ' Yet he was always attacking the man (Mr Balance) to whom he owed' that seat, Mr Pharazyn retorted that if the hon. gentleman held that a Councillor must be subservient to the Government which nominated him, he (Mr Pharazyn) had a 'different conception of his duty to the country. The rest of the hon. gentleman's remarks, ho could afford disregard, as being absolutely uncalled for. It is understood that the Colonial Secretary's allusion to the uncertain ' tenure of Mr Pharazyn'B Beat had reference to an allegation that it was forfeited through absence. If Sir Patrick is correct, we wonder whose fault it is that Mr Pharazyn is permitted to sit there ? Should not the same exalted sense of duty whioh led the Attorney-General to press the case against Mr Edwards before tho Privy Council also cause him to hale Mr Pharazyn before that supremo tribunal?—or is the purity of the Legislative Council less sacred in his eyes than that of the Judicial Bench?—E. Post.

Apropos of the pickle bottle incident, yesterday morning Mr M'Kenzie interviewed the landlady of the Club Hotel, and informed her that if Mr Fish was permitted to reside there he and his colleagues who made that hotel their head quarters would withdraw their patronage, and go else* where, Of course Mrs Downes could not afford to lose five Ministers for one member, and so Mr Fish had to be delicately asK to vacate his quarters, and Ministers will now be rid of his obnoxious presence in their hours of relaxation and refreshment.—EvepiDg Prosa,