PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4813, 31 August 1894, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Apropos of the necessity for cheapening the rates for money, tho Hon. Mr Ward says he know the case of n small holder paying 10 per cent, for Xil 50, who has paid L 360 in interest ijjd ft still g'fling'on paying his 10 percent, One half of the cigars imported into New Zealand labelled" Havana " and" Cuba," are manufactured in the city of Sydney,says Mr Hogg. Mr Hogg:" It is somethingshocking that in a place like Wellington, employers who havo only two or tjiree vacancies in a year for apprentices have so many as 200 or 300 names ot young people On their lists for employment."'

■■ Whip Mr KM, Smith wasparadingrond moro healthy-looking coal frbin Taranaki yesterday, JlrFarnshaw arrested the show by objecting that it was out of order for a member to ihtroduco articles into the House, The Speaker ruled that it was not. "Sir!" indignantly retorted the New Plymouth man, waving his hand towards the member for Dunedin," I have as much right to introduce articles into this House as the electors of Dunedin have ?" This won, and tho Houso rang with laughter. "During tho discussion last night as't'fl the wisdom qr otherwise of retaliatory tariffs against the other colonies, the Colonial Treasurer declared that'if those colonics insisted on maintaining prohibitive duties, tho effect of which is to shut our goods out of their markets, he would bo in favour of imposing higher duties upon goods imported from those colonies, He did not jijeliove an increased duty upon wheat would be the means of causing an increas'o in the value of bread. (Dissent), He would toll members iyhy, Wheat now was below 3s a fiuiHiol;' hqw far'bcloV3s would wheat 'require to fall beforo they could induce tho bakers in this Colony to reduce tlie'price of the loaf J a d'or H? Ho admitted, at the pamo. lime, that tho' Government would require to bo careful in the aipnnt they levied to see that it wgujd'.not bo sq cqnsiderablc as jo allow Hie baking community to take, advantage of the tariff and raise the prico of the loaf to the conElf sucha'duty had the effect iisingf no price of.•broad he jppose it.— iTim«. J