Parliamentary Notes.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4800, 15 August 1894, Page 3

Parliamentary Notes.

'j'he Shop and Shop Assistants Bill was in cpuiniitlee i|i tho Hpupp !)[ flepresentfttives last night. An amendment closing hotel bars on the Jialf holiday was carried on tlip casting vote of tho Chairman of Committees, who explained that be wished to give the Houso an opportunity of rc-considcring the question, Mr Duthie proposed that. Saturday should be fixed for tho halfholiday, but this was 1 vjt, Progress was reported when ela'iU" 6 was reached. The .Harbours Act Au/>ndmeut Bill passed its, committee' stage. A new clause was added giving a Harbour Board power to levy harbour-improvemeut rates 011 all goods or merchandise discharged at'..or shipped frohi a port. The Companies Accounts Audit Bill also passed through committee,' The Ad; ultemtibri'prevention Acts 'Amend' liliMit'Bill, jhtayidihg that'llo lion ' lie iniid'o between ordinary loaves of. bread ami-Erench or fancy bread in r'egari] to weight/™ read H second : timo in, 'fbo .Legislative Council. The destitute Persons Bill ivuß passed in that House and tho Conspiracy LaW Amendment' liiljj passed'itscßnjniittee stage,'

<%, i;,l i ■ f ,V; Replying yesterday to Mr Meredith's suggestion that theatrical and "opera companies, itinerant loeturers ; .otc,, ; should bo called on to contribute towards charitable aid, tho Treasurer' deplored tho fiict that this suggestion had not been offered before tho Bud : got was brought down;, (Lauglitor); Now JEI postal notes are to bo issued in October next, ami the now £0 notes will probably bo in circulation about the beginning of next year. It is intended to limit tho issuo of £1 and £5 notes to £IOO.OOO.

The salaries paid to school teachers should bo according to classification, says tho Hon, Mr Reeves, for at present there are extraordinary and ridiculous .discrepancies. Mr T. Mackenzie lias a boy ati tending school in Wellington who is very inuchamused with tliosimplicity of the IcssOnsgiven him as compared with those he had. to leani in Otngo. So the member for Clutlia informed tho House yesterday,. An attempt was made to compel the closing of hotel bars 011 the shop half-holiday, aiid it was successful, on the casting vote of the Chairman of Committees, Mr Guinness explaining that lie gave his vofein that way 111 order that the House might have an opportunity of reconsidering, the question,

When the Shops and Shop Assistants Rill was in Committee last night Mr Hall suggested that measures should bo taken by which a man compelled to close his shop should not be able to put goods in a cart and travel about selling thorn. Aii amendment in that direction was lost, but Mr Hogg then moved that hawkers should be subject to the provisions of tho Rill. He thought it would he exceedingly unfair to shopkeepers to compel them to close their shops, and to allow at the same time hawkers to sell iii the streets outside, Sir 11, Stout shared this view, and so did Mr R, Thompson. Mr Reeves explained that this could not he done. He had taken advice on the question. Ministers pointed out that the proper place for such an amendment was the Hawkers and Pedlars Rill, and the amendment was therefore lost 011 the voices,--N.Z. limes.