PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4535, 28 September 1893, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

HIE CASE OF MR EDWARDS. This subject was before tho liouso jfCfterday. Mr Duthie asking 1110 joverniai nt whetlier they intended to place a sum on the Supplementary . Estimaies to reimburse Mr Edwards :bc coat lie incurred in defending liis lorn mission an a Judge of the Supreme <] Court, and lo compensate liirn for the loss he suffered in giving up his practice to accept that office. The Premier's reply was that the Government 3id not intend to take any action in ihe Mr Duthie expressed his regret at this reply, The Government of the country wascontinuoiif, and aB it was the Gnvertuient which had induced Mr Edwards to relinquish his practice, the present Ministry, in bis opinion, did not i ipe to the occasion in the attitude they were adopting. Mr Bcgg tli mglit tlio Colony , ought not to lie culled upon to repay 1 ihe money. Captain Rufl-eil agreed j with tlio views express, d by Mr Dnthie, pointing out tbut M r Edwardu was appointed »Judge wiili the full consent of the Parliament of New 1 Zealand. JJOXEY FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS. In distributing the new vote of ; £15,000 for school bnildinas, the • Government will Ulocatua fixed sum for any district such as Wellington, where settlement is progressing rapidly. In settled districts the amounts granted will be on the capitation basis. fffE EXPERIMENTAL FARM. Honrly tho wjiole of the £3OO voted on Wednesday momii)!> in the Public Works Estimates to improve farm settlements is to be spent on the experimental firm' at Wawley. The sum of £4OO hue been voted for the curator's house at Momolmkj The location of tbe State farm, whioh was at first iotonded to be at Waverloy, has not yet beon decided, FKTITIONS. The Waste Lands Committee have been considering the petition of Oolepian Phillips for relief in connection with the proEecntiona instituted against him fiy tho Wellington Land Poai-.d, and have' recommended the matter to the favourable corieidflrat[on of the Government. : The comjpittee BUggsdji' that the jußtifiin of the joase would be Batii<fied : by;.tbe withdrawal .ofvttovforfelt^ Block, _ , ' .

The A to LCoramii tea make no recommendation as to tbe petition of H. Banckor Wellington,: for. compenBiiuon, because of Ins having boon, n3. he hI eges ,viongf«llv outlawed Iforn tbo "Chatham lalnnd in 1860,: nnd decpoilud of Ins proporiy Nutliu lihvo the committee, any recommendation conceiiiing the application of D, M. BrookSj Maaierton, for compensation for loss of employment in the i Bail ray Department. THE MARTINI lIENRV MHKS. Before acreptirg the- contract of Messrs Cmnoion and Chrisuo for the 8000 Martini-Henry r II s, the Government nUaioed (|ieiiiUiiMis from various sourcap, ft 1 * follow i— The Agent-Grnrnl r- jjofe.i tlmi the rifles could I'd snppkd f (, v £4 4s each; theO'donial Aiinimoi nmCompnny quoted, f.o.b, in Gd lor 1001). and £3 & lid l«r 8000; and Cameron and Christie'i> prirewas £2lss each, the r,ll?s d liv.red in Wellington. The last Mentioned vl&r was acreptod by thu Government, ut laive film being thus saved io the Colony, cp was |Oiircduur i.i ilie House yesletday bv Ibo Promier. The New Zealand Rifle Association quo'ol£3asii jiricc at whirh they were willing to transfer to the Government an off r they had ncrived. NORTH 131, AND TRUNK RAILWAY, Tile survey parties now exp'«rin« tho North Island Tmnk Kail way rotilea nre to be .s'rengtliened by the Government,.who will shottly send another surveyor and a party to oasis', in the work, THE MILTON SALVATIONISTS. An offer Ims ben mad-by the Government lo Colonel Bailey io release the two rimi'.iniiig WvalinmMß in prison fur biei'di.s «f iln) »"W----f-iinous Miltnt by-la' - ', mi condition that th« Army do not nil' nd agiin, except with the apress o 1 j ci of test-' ing tho validity of tliu by-li". This olt'-r lias b»en teleuriiplied to Chiiatoliurcli.—N.Z. Timed.