PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4765, 5 July 1894, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

:. t 'Dr Newman's Bill making it pos- . ; siblo for women to occupy seats in ' tho Legislative Assembly, is styled ) i " Parliamentary Disabilities of • Women Bill." ' Thora ivro no regulations to pro. vido against over-crowding on vail- . way excursion trains, tho Premier . states, tlio question of tlio accommodation required being loft testation- . Rasters, rDr Newman's suggestion that • railway scats should be , cushioned, met with tho reply from | tho Bailway Commissioners that it .would inyolvo n largo expenditure, and one which the Commissioners did not think necessary. Tho scats already provided wove fairly coinfortublo. In reply to Mr Wilson, tho Minister of Lands yesterday stated that lie intended this session to bring l down a Fencing Act Amendment y Bill, in which tho question of com- ■ polling natives to pay their share of tho cost of tho fencing when their land adjoined that of Europeans, would ho dealt with, Tlio Seivants' Eegistry Act,passed tho interests of sci-vaut girls is, according to the Premier, a I. dead letter, owing to tlio local authoritiea not onforcing its provisions. He does not believe in entrusting such matters to local bodies. -Press, Tho presont Houso so farcompavcs favourably with previous Parlia- >. ments in tlio matter of work. There x has not yet been any attempt at obstruction. Tho Hon Mr Steward urges that k substantial bonuses bo offered for a specific for tho destruction of tho white grub which destroys grain and for tho ouvo or prevention of parasitic diseases in sheep. Mr Meredith says that up to tho presont tho Lincoln School of Agri- , culture has been a white olophant. Dr. Newman says that Captain Hannah " has boon examining tho geography of the harbour in tho A Ellen Ballanco" and wants to know ■- if he is to be sent round the Sounds in tlio Hinemoa. Tho Premior told Mr Allen yesterday that there are no special regulations respcctingover-crowding of railway carriages, but tlio matter is regulated by the station-masters. The members of tho Teviot and Alexander Fruitgrowers' Co, (Limi ited) are petitioning for protection A against foreign fruit. They claim ' that £IOO,OOO worth of foreign fruit is imported annually. Quito a number of questions have blossomed out on the Order Paper relating to tho great Commission. Hero is ono by Mr Buchanan, which is most insidiousHo is to ask whether tlio Mr O'Hara Smith, who was characterised by the Colonial Secretary as "incompetent" is thesamoMr O'Hara Smith whom tho Minister for Lands said was an able and zealous oflicer P If so, has tlio Minister for Lands changed tho opinion ho formerly expressed; and if not, by which minister's opinion is the House to be guided in estimating the value of the report of the __ Royal Commission ? The Gaming Bill which Sir Robert Stout is introducing is mainly directed at restricting racing to within reasonable limits, its author holding *4 that sinco tho totalisator camo into T existence the evil lias grown 1 alarming dimensions. It is propo;. A that tho number of days on wliii J races can be held in the colony shall' bo limited to 75 in any ono year, and that only fifty permits for the use of the totalisator shall be issued, Tho Bill further provides that money paid 0" promised to bo paid in conn '' with gaming transactions sh " coverablo at law, and makos with an infant or selling an infant, a totalisator ticket an offenco punishable by a fine of £2O; or, in the discretion of Justices, three months'] imprisonment, Tho laying of totalisator odds in the street or at a shop is nlso provided against by three months' imprisonment, or fine up to £2O. If tho Bill becomes law tho Hk crop of mushroom " tote," bettors have sprung up since the legamachine came into oxistence Hnwill find their occupations gouo.—

Tlio Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Bills were read ft second time 1 in the House of Representatives yesterday. A motion proposed by Major Hams that no beer, wine, or spirituous liquors should lie sold in Bellamy's, was earned, and a Bill is I introduced to givo offecfc to the tion. Tho Indictable Offences laiy Jurisdiction Bill and tho ed Women's Property Bill cead a second time in the Leg'e Council. 1 Newman's request that tho ly men should be-paid fortly instead of monthly has been ied by the Commissioners. Bellamy's is closed, said the ier last night, members would übt do as had been done before, provide themselves with some- , This had occurred not so long Sir Robert Stont: I hari heard of it. Mr Tanner: I k lost session, I saw tho flask 1 across tho floor, inswer to • the representations ■ Hogg as to tho establishment State. Fire Insurance Departth§_ Evemier said yesterday J ftie Government''have not yet i to any conclusion upon the

lojor Harris' motion for the proition of the sale of beer, wine and ■itaous liquors in Bellamy's unectedly came up last night for enssion,. and to the surprise of |fcn& had. been treating the ntor ab a wrflier good joke, was Iriedi—N.Z, Times.