Parliamentary Notes.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4786, 30 July 1894, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

"I .think it is a monstrous.shame thatin this'civilised ageamanmus't wait until he is dead before ho ran occupy a section "of his'ownV— Mr W.W.Collins. ~; ''- t" '■'" ~ Mr Matman says settlers .dowA South live on land that will only cany' one grasshopper to the acre. - , '.'lt opens, .up avenues, for jobbery one monopolist you are going to set u}) ten.'—MrO'Regan on tlie Lands for Settlement Bill. • ,; : : '• -"Ho was born a singlo-taxor, ho lives a;singlq T taxer ; ;'he;bassingler tax for breakfast|! single ■ tak for dinner, aud : single-tax for tea; ; : wheti awake ho talks single-tax, 1 when asleep A single-.tax ' is; ivitli him r in dreamland; -Mr Briick, '■ bn ; -the member for I'rm. :. I: ,","'',' There are'' indications that when tho Lands for Settlement Bill is in committee there 1 will, bo a, fight bybi' the" eternal lease," Somo of the Government Supporters are, it isi understood, strongly opposed tefthisform' of tenure;; ,Onp,o| them, Mi;' G; :W; Russellj'u'as intimated that ho will call for a 1 division on the subject ". : The question of admitting women to thor.Strangers'. Gallery .has, been attracting some attention at Homo, In a Ministerial reply'iii .tlio House of Commons' last'moiith, Mr' Herbert Gladstone stated thfltforjmore than a century Avomen woro allowed to enter tho Strangers' Gallery," but onohday.- when the galleries were ordered to be cleared the women who were present refused to go, though the '.malo'portion ■■ of. tlio audience obeyed the mandate. Ever since, the presence of .ladies in 'the ordinary galleries of,tho House had not been permitted, •

An application of Mr J. G. Wilson to liave 1 '"'a'' read surveyed from Shannon to Eketnlnuia',' over the ranges, has been doclincdfor„wnnt of'lunds: ' i": i .•:' :'■■•

Tho regulations' printed in. the '.books of- tho Post. Office, .Savings IBunk.depositors are to.be amended sons to make it clear that the sayings of 'married women, • earned before their ! m'nrriage, ; ; cannot be claimed by 'their hiisbaiids.—N.Z. Times., .v.": .','.• . . -,r \ v