PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4811, 29 August 1894, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Tho Bum of L3OOO or L4OOO is likoly to bo placed ou tho Supplementary Estimates to refund local bodies the cost of the licensing elections.

Hi* Hogg protested last night against the salary of the Clerk and bailiff at Pabiatua being only LGO, while similar officors' at Danovirke and Wairoa—consideraby smaller places, lie pointed out—arc respectively Ll5O and L2OO. Mr Bell thinks the salary paid to the Agent-General, LI2SU, is too small for a married man, and said so yesterday. The Colonial Treasurer promised that the matter would bo considered, " The Agent General gets quite enough," remarked Mr T, Mackenzie, with much fierce emphasis, as lie looked defiantly at the Government,

When the Justice Estimates were before tho House lastnightMr Willis strongly urged that tlio salary of District Judge Kettle should be increased, He is, he said, a greatly overworked man, a man of exceptional ability, and has a very ■ large district tq attend to, 110 knew that Judge Kettle lypiild be compelled to {•esignif the Government did not raise his salary, Mi' George Hutchison also maintained that tho salary of Mr Kettle and that of the other District Judges should bo increased, Mr Stevens spoke in high praise of the abilities of Judge Kettle, and so did Dr Newman. The Premier said that the Government had made two offers to Judge Kettle but ho had refused them. Mr Willis; What were the oilers ? The Premier replied that lie had been offered the Validation Court. Mr G. Hutchison said that that would have meant breaking up his home. The Premier added that there would probably bo ere long other changes, and that it was the desire of the Government to do what was just to a deMr l'irani and Mr McGuiro hoped that Judge Kettle would not be removed from his present district. The former said he was ouo qf the best Bankruptcy Judges in tho Colony. Mr Oadmansaid there was plenty of Magistrates who lmd muchroughcr trips tomake than Judge Kettle. It must be understood that ho lmd nothing to say against him, for lie was a very efficient officer. ' Speaking of the second reading of tl|e Factories Bill, Mr Jenkinson said ho had hoped that there would have been a clause inserted in the Dill prohibiting girls from selling newspapers, a practice be considered as disgraceful and disgusting. Sir P, Buckley: " Where is this dono ? I have never beard of it!" Mr Jenkinson replied that it was done in Wellington, He also thought that Hallelujah Lasses should be stopped from going into all sorts of dens to sell tjie War Cnj,-N.Z, Times.