Parliamentary Notes.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4777, 19 July 1894, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

■■ ■ • ■ -■••■.-. ■ A lesuin of estates of deceased O persons who liavo left o>ei £20,000 ( duimg the past four jeavs, and'of Jr tho duty paid thereon, includes v several Wellington estates There aie2l poisons mall The Hon A 1 G. Tollemache left £464,201,-payine - - j £34,040 duty ■;'Joliii jfsMoKSlyio, £115;591, paying' £sß2|j|ty; W 'v, li.-Liitan, £56,017, 'paymg' : £27Bß, Hon John-Martin, £92)258, paving £4,617.duty.; Pefoi\Hume; £32si?£ , *fg payiri? TC^H^lfevin, £242,734, paying £12,248 duty . . The .Local. Bilh .Committee state ■ that they can express rio'opinion on- - tho principle involved in tho Wair- ' \ arapa Hospital District Bill". '' ' ! ! A return which was laid before -i that and -til# fatherless," of whose op-pressipn-MrHogg .so ;i ''■s feelingly in connection uith" tho ' Weraiti road; 1 ' hold lanil 'valiied- ; af >* £57,066,—P05t \ . Tho.Bank of Now Zealand Sharo ->.w t ho Bant Share Transfer Bill bocnnie I lawyesterdiiy, stages in, the Legislative} Council. • , In the House of KepresoiifaHvos, the Shearers' Ac'coMfflatoisai Employee' Private Benefit Socict^^ Bill; and the Threshing Owners Lion Bill were read a second time. ', ; > ' 7 ■ 'U\ ; The shearer was before the Houso for, about an lioui'last night, mem-« bevs diseussingifreely, his fao'de* of ft liying.' Mr Hogg described his staple article of diet; a'-''ibrownie," ft something like brown bread, and said that that alternated with a few,,, 1 potatoes and indifferent'meat.'' As : ' for milk and butter there was very littfo of "either,-' t

There is not much reverence for lawyers in the House., lam not a,,, lawyer," said Mr Milll ast v ii i'-' apologetically, " and I have had 110 * legal experience in drafting this Bill." So much the better for the Bill !".exclairaed'lll l Tanner,;.;; ••• lt t i;Mr Lawry asked tho Colbniaf'"' Treasurer iv question yesterday ra the dispute liotweeh thoTaxDbpiu^V} ment and the authorities of the supar 1 ' ■' works at Chelsea, near Auckland, The, Hon Mr Ward assured 'tlio House in reply that the Governmorit .would in no instanco bo a party to injuring any industry in the Colony,. ~ Tho position. was; not ns had been? stated in' the press tolegi'ams,and'' represented by the Sngar Company in Auckland. The statement that the Government wanted, to/ claim;-,. .• taxation from tho earnings of capital invested in Fiji was incorrect. What , \ wits asked for was the cost of the raw * sugar, brought into Aiieklaud front Fiji, The company wanted an assess* ~.. mcnt based on an imaginary cost, 5 They ought to bo ablo to get from their books, ho contended, the real cost of tho raw sugar. Ho had sont ' an important communication to tho general manager of tho Sugar Com*, pany in Sydney, becauso'ho believed ' that tho department wero not ' / ceiving fair play from the-Auckland authontiosr • No! political pressure'' would induce.the •Government to give any concession which wascon. triiry to \m.~rJfX Times. ; .