POLITICAL NEWS.
Sir Mert Stout intends to introduce a Bill designed to check gambling. It ' is based upon Acts recently passed in ' England and proposes to stop gambling by infants. Undcrthis Bill no commission can be recovered iu acourt of Jaw from the principal in a' betting transaction.' She Bill stops" totc' r betting, and makes nunisuablo.tho salo of any totalisator ticket to an infant. It also limits the number of race meetings at which the 'totalisator may be used, and the number of days of racing, District Judgo Kcltlo recommends r amendments of tho law iu the direction 1 of (1) raising tho tenure of District i Court Judges from onb" during the t pleasure of the Governor" to a :tcuuro , "duringability and good behaviour;" j (2) causing the salaries of all District > Judges to; bo'of the like amount;' (3) i placing tho salaries of all District r Judges on.tho permanent civil list; and r (4)making'itimpossible torcdnco any , such District Juago's salary during Ms i tenure of office,' •Ho has' petitioned the* . House in favour of these changes, i The Immigration Bill %hlcH the Go- | vcwntjilli|trtced6ublc i s the poll- [ tax pn thp Chinese. Fitrlhcritisfo'prc- ■ vent ilm influx of criminals and paupers, ,' and will also render illegal the system of -. cohtrflctiiig ( ,for: Jabour,' .^outsido.^r.tlie •' Colony; tlio'Billtmis'prevcntingchcap i labour froihfloodiiigtho market; ,; i . Theaiipoiutliiehtof : ColonelFrAsevto i the ofGco of; gergcarit-of-Arnift if ;to bo i reviewed by ;Si? Bolipyt who': j. Mvphlioticobioqiiestion';bii-llio^t!ub-
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4755, 23 June 1894, Page 3
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240POLITICAL NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4755, 23 June 1894, Page 3
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