PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4807, 24 August 1894, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

This is the ninth week of tlio present session—and still there are about nine more to come, A pamphlet on oystcr-cnjture and fish-curing is to be issued at the instance of Mr Mills. The Colonial Treasurer intends to push on the question of of an Intercolonial reciprocity.Conference, Tho Premier says he is vory sorry to say that tho Powers show no inclination to accept his offer to take Samoa, . Mr Pirani says the Minister for Lands treats tho House as a man would treat a child , Wanganjii andManaptu dentists are .petitioning for inpistanco pn thebettor qualification of dentists. The Minister of Labour says that the abolition of tho Provincial Governments™ a great mistake, Mr Orowther thinks so too, The Premier says the Unauthorised Expenditure of last year is down to £ll,ooo—tho lowest point it has ever readied, This, he says, is evidence of careful administration, ■ Tho various Good Templars' petitions (57 of them came before the M to lx Committee alone) in favour of liquor law reform, havo been referred to Government for consideration. Mr E. M. Smith said yesterday that the speeches 1 at ; ihcEollestoii banquet "would .have causedlirebellion in ariy'othfer country." <■■! ■ The Government lias: hot yet: decided as to tho votpforfomalorefugo work -'for this year.' Tho Minister for Education says'that groat good was done with last year's vote., ' j' •' : Mr Collins has' 1 itaiw taken upMie question of Mr Valentine, itiio 'lony'u dairy expert in London

being alleged'to'act for Now South Wales, as : ivoll,asNow Zealand.— Post. ' '''" '"''■'■ "'.' I can joke when I want to'jqko; but I can be as serious as a judge of thoSupromo Court.—Mr E. M. Smith, Party Government in the ;01d Country, thinks Mr B. 11. Smith, has saved the Etupiro, • "lam hero to see fair play," said Mr IS,' M,-Smith last night, and then immediately added, " Lot us legis-, late in the interest of the masses arid not in tho interest of the classes.". Mr Hogg considers we should have a "millennium of cats.and dogs," if tho : > Elective : , Ministers' Bill was passed. : The Government Printer reports that the demand for Hwisard has been exceptionally large this session. Ihc first seven numbers are now out of print.

'•The Minister of Labour having consented to take charge of tho Shearers' Accommodation Bill, introduced by Major Steward, the third reading was postponed yesterday evening, being a private members' night.— Press.-