POLITICAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4231, 30 September 1892, Page 3

POLITICAL.

JiOKOADEBEpiYIVHJS.^ Mr Maguire says that" while lawyers and pettifoggers of that description " have to do with law-making or codification, tho country will not get a satisfactory legal system. He would have all the laws of the land reduced to the compass of a few volumes, and oppressed in language within the comprehenpion of persons of the meanest capacity.

TWO SMOES. Mr Bruce Bhowed in the House last night that tho Government Insurance Department has at least two prices! for the money it lpnds, while, of course, the money itself is not of two distinot qualities or values, A former workman of his own, who had saved money and acquired land valued at £9OO, had to pay seven per oent. for anohey borrowed by him from the seplartment, vrhile he (Mr Bruce himBeljJ'iiadbeen able to borrow from the same department at six per cent. Was that right or'fair, or even, in the truosenßO,'business-like/ ' MJNATICS AT LARGE, While admitting that lunatics socalled are specially disqualified under [he electoral laws; Pr Newman' sorrowfully regrets that, owing to the backward state of medical science, many personß in every way entitled to be regarded as lunatics are allowed to Sourish on the olectoral rolls, and permitted to say by their votes who, !jj their opinion, are fit mi proper

persons to represent the country in Parliament. The best part of the business ia that these hard-brained beiuga are numoroua enough to turn the scale at many notable elootions— ; that is, judging by the results observablo within the august walls' of Parliament itself.

WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOUtD BE. Mr Buokland says that under the present electoral system many men, who set out from their homes with the intention of voting for one candidate, get so mixed up that they vote for another; and he hopes the time is coming when all electors will, by means of rights such as the Legislative Council wish to be conferred on women, be ablo to vote quietly iu their own homes," We learn on reliable authority that the Wellington gentlemen selected by the Government for nomination lo the Legislative Council are Mr T. G, Macarthy and the Hon E. Richardson, O.M.G.—Evening Press,