POLITICAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4228, 27 September 1892, Page 2

POLITICAL.

The Minister for Agriculture has informed Mr Buchanan that the Government aro in communication with the Eailway Commissioners as to the devising of a better tnetbed than new obtains for the cool conveyance of dairy produce to the ports of, export, Up to date nearly 1000 notioes have been issued from the office of the Eegislrar of Electors for Wellington City, challenging names which appear onthepresentelectoral roll, on various grounds, and objections to about another 2000 voters are being prepared and will be sent, out shortly, If tbe Electoral Bill is dropped, owing to the amendments made by the Council, Ministers will have themselves to blame for it, Not one of these important changes has been carried by a majority of nine, If, therefore, Ministers had been content with the Governor's offer to make nine appointments, they could have carried the Electoral Bill in its en« tirety, The fact proves most completely that twelve appointments were not necessary to give them a fair degree of strength in the Counoil.-Post. A return, prepared to an order

moved by Mr Wright, shows that 421 persons in the colony have incomes exceeding £IOOO a year, anil amounting in the gross to .£876,768; while those wlio have incomes over £BOO nnd under £IOOO, number 2829, and the total in their case amounts to £1,886,478.