PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4512, 1 September 1893, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

Jottings. Mr Earnshaw on Wednesday night challenged Mr Fish to contest the Dunedin election in the liquor intorrst, and ho would run against him in the Teraperonco interest. Mr Allon is moving for the correspondence and report relating to the Salvation Army prosecution at Milton.

Mr Earrftaw does not believo women wilniave the vote at tho next election. Ho further says that ho will vote for tho general extension of electoral rights on evory possiblefuture occasion.

Mr M'Lean says nothing during the last two years has given him so much concern as how to act on the Liquor Bill for the benefit ol his fellow-men, He told tho Qouso he bad slept on the Bill frequently, whereat the House roared,

11 Alter a member bus gone through the ordeal of an election —after ox» pending ill their energies, all their thoughts, and got into the House, they wish to be left in peaco and quietness for three years, to enjoy what they hove •son, and would not likoto have to go through the ordeal every year"—Mr M'Lean, comparing members to publicans on the provision for giving publicans two years' renewal,

Some people at Nelson petition for an amendment of the Medical Practitioners' Act, to enable Herbert Clapbam to continue the practice of bis profession as a medical botanist. As tbo matter is of very great importance the Petitions Committee refers to the Government for immediate consideration of tbo petition, of tho close season for mullet extending from 20tb September to 20th Marob.

The Public Petitions Committeo hrs no recommendation to make concerning the petition of tbo Wanganui teachers for a uniform scale of salaries throughout the colony. Thero are 1149 men employed on co-oporativo works in tire North and G63 in tho South Island. Of tho former number, 84 arc employe.! in Wanganui County, 134 in Rangitikei, 212 in Pahiatua, 215 in Wairarspa, and 06 in Hutt.

Sir Patrick Buckley says that Mr W. 0. Walker is the Leader ol the OpposiiiorJnJho Council. The Mmr-Mr Taiaioa was taken suddenly ill on Wednesday evening, and the Franchise, with whom he would have voted, were very anxious to obtain a pair for him, but Major Ropata would not consent. Bo the Francbisists would have won by three but for the honourablegentleman's illness,

The petition of H. M'Kinnsn, of Wanganui, who asks for relief through being probably made a cripple fpr life on account of an accident'sustained Vfhilo working on a po-operatiye eon* tract near Obingaiti, has been ad' versely reported on. Mr Jiruoe, speaking of the way publicans are harried, said last night that (ho way to make a man an outlaw is totn^uhjniasono, Thsptfffltpr for Labour says the Government Party" can see with one eyeandspeakwith onovoico," What's the matter with the oilier eyo ? Apropos of Prohibition, Mr Bruce says that legislation in advance of I public option but invito infraction of the law, The a slashing speech in the small hours of this morning, ond was warmly congratulated upon it as members filed out of t!ie HouEb. ' ' " '■'■' '" The Councillors who voted for Dhp shearers! right yesterday were the Hons. Bowen, Ftldwiok, Grace, Holmes, Jenkinson, Kerr, M'Lean, Bigg, Shrimski, Swanson, Waba-! waba, L. Walker, W. C. .Walker, Wbitmore. ' Capjafa Kenny aurjCaplain Morris paired on Weaocsdoy for antl against fcrjjajb enfraooliiseinqnt respectively,

A sanguiue but very expprienced Parliamentarian fixes prorogation at a fortnight hence. It is oarlnin that tho husinesß to be dono cannot bclone in that lime.—Post,