POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4517, 7 September 1893, Page 2

POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

Mr Scobie Mackenzie aiya that under tiii) Shop utid Shop Assistants Mil a'timi) is to bo denied a glass of, ;milk'dr a little fruit, and to be driven to ihn hotel to drink beer. Like Mc fli'GowaD, Sir Robert Stout, and! some other members, he considers that if shops are olosed so should hotels be. :

Mr Taylor said, yeslorday, that he had- been asked hy huudreds of women "who hud obWgeofthn commissariat" of Government employes, to ask that their wagea "and salaries be paid fortnightly. ; The.Governmeiit, however, could not see its way to ligrcp,' 1 Peter Coira, of Tcrnuka, having fuund some jewellery in iiis paddock, handed it to the police for identification. It has not ken identified, and Mr Coira wants it back, but the A to L Committee cannot recommded his petition.

At the suggestion of Mr, Geo. Hutchison', the -new • issae of postal notes with extendod ourrency will | bear plainly, printe.l on the face the period after date for which they will romain good,,

Mr Wilson wishes , tlm Postal Department to carry .small parcels of books for school libraries free, but the Postmaster-General siya lie oanuot-conseiit to this. The parcels post is already very cheap, MrEamshaw Gays ho recognises that under the Shops and Assistants Bill a great number of small shops must go to tlie wall, but lie dot-a not think tbis altogether a bait tliiug.' So many shops mean so many more kept at the expense of the producer who rnigiit be more profitably for tho community employed at ptlier things. The Postmasters General says that before advertisements were printed on their backs, telegraph forms were used by the public for all sorts of purposes, at great loss tc the country. He admits tlmt it is very difficult, to read messages, but promises that ae soon as the present supply is exhausted bettor and thicker paper will be used: Meantime ho has given instructions that at the larger offices messages shall be written in ink, Mr Scobie Mackenzie, in asking the Minister for Lands yesterday to see that in future lUbbit Inspectors should deliver their u'wn summonses in ord?r tn save sutlers expense, said that the R»btiit Department and iie rabbit law were becoming a pert second only to the rnbb ts themselves. The Minister said perhaps it was—to negligent settlers who didn't take steps to destroy the rabbits. He could not comply with the request;. Rabbit Inspectors were so well known that settlers would keep out of tho way when they saw them coming. _ Mr Saunders says that shop assistants aro the least overworked class in the community. Mr Guinness challenges the statement. A member of the Press Gallery last night was heard to observe that of the four W's l<y which the world is ruled —Women, Wine, Wity and Wisdom—tho two latter were conspicuously absent from the Parliamentary dis-. cussion of the two former.

• Members of ilio Legislative Council yesterday afternoon moved a number" of alisuul amendments as to persons who should bo permitted to vote on electoral rights. Monthly nursos, gumdiggers, bushfollera, lighthousekeepers, and all sorts and conditions of men and women wore suggested, until at Inst Dr Pollen tarcasiically remarked tliat someone nri|{lit as well complete tke list by proposing seaguile,—Evening Post.