PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4533, 26 September 1893, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

Jottings, PREPARING FOR THE ELECTIONS, Insrructioha have been "iven by (he Government that the time for receiving applications to be registered on the main electoral rolls shall close on the 'sth October. The printing of these rolls will, it is estimated, take about three weeks, and after then, votorj wJinse naiars have not been given in in time will be placed on the supplementary rolls. Two or three weeks after the close of theses* sion, Ministers will kve for their homes to prepare for tho elections. LABOUR BILLS COMMITTEE. This commit tee has ended its work for t!:e session, 'and yestrrdiy the members roe!, and having confirmed minutes, etc, passed a cordial vote of thanks to Captain Russell for the ablo and impartial manner in whicL he Ims discharged the duties of Chairman.

Althongh no tail motion was made on the subject, h few more Bills were cleared from the order paper yesterday. Order Number 16, the adjourned debate ou flolonel fox's report, was also abandoned, There were numerous enquiries of the Premier concerning the Libel Bill, to which Mr Seddon replied that he had still fiomo hope for this measure, a remark greeted with a sardonic grin by Mr Fisher. Sir John Hull protested there were still forty Bills ou paper, including the Native Land Purchase and Acquisition Bill,a measure v hich the Ilatives would he likely £o debate at considerable leugth; the Criminal Coda Bill, which would be likely to last two days; a number of Labour Bills, and other measures of considerable importance, Ii would be impossible to pass ihese in a week, The Premier suggested that the good sonse of members should come to the rencue, ai.d liolp them to gi't through the work, a remark which did not seem to be welcomed with delight by the Opposition—N. Z. Times.