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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5057, 21 June 1895, Page 2

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Earl Jersey on behalf of tho Mother Country. The report above mentioned deals with proposals as to the esta blishmont of a mail service by way of Vancouver, and the carrying of an ocean cable across tho Pacific to connect New Zealand with British North America. The world-wide problem of providing WORK FOB THE TORKI.ESS has ouco more beou a cause of anxiety during the recess. One of my Ministers visited and inspected a number of the village settlements and labour colonies in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, and his report has led to the trial of an important experiment in combining settlement with the employment of labour; further, an experienced officer has been despatched to Australia to make a more elaborate report of the village settlements there. On his return his report will be laid before you. Tho settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown under the

general land laws of the Colony hai continued to go on satisfactorily during the past year. Thoextcntior of dairy factories in some parts ol the Colony raakesa source of satisfaction that the system of encouraging grading and cool storage ol dairy produce are now being carried on by the Departmentof Agriculture with the best results. Fully alive to the paramount necessity for stimulating trade, both in timber and frozen meat, my Ministers have endeavoured to aid the export of the former by guaranteeing half of the freight of cargoes, and propose to call together a Conference in Wellington to discuss steps for improving the distribution of our meat in Great Britain. The measures recommended in the report on

THE COLONY'S DhFEXCKS aro being steadily earned on. Tim advice of last year's military con- [ ference is being acted on, and beforo ' next year the whole of our forces will be armed with the MartiuiHenry rifle. The requisite ammunition will henceforth be manufactured within New Zealand, The time has, in my opinion, arrived for increasing the

NUMBER OP MY MINISTERS. The growth of population, the advance of settlement und the extension of the functions of the State have so added to the duties of my advisers as to make this change needful in the best interests of the Colony. Gentlemen of the House of .Representatives estimates of the

IiEVEKUE AND EXPENDITURE of the year, will be laid before you. The estimates of expenditure havo been framed with a due regard to economy. Eon. Gentlemen of the Legislatirc Council, ami Gentlemen of Ike House of Itepresentutires.— For the third year in succession, you will be asked to pass a Bill extendjk ing to Local Bodies the right of •levying rates upon land values. By it, such Bodies will be allowed to apply the principle npon which direct taxation has for years been assessed by the Government. A Fair Rent Bill will be introduced, and also a measure to effect needful amendments in the Land for Settlements Act. You will be asked to deal with the electoral law, and to assent to a change designed to prevent too frequent and inconvenient change of the boundaries of electorates. Public opinion demands that the difficult problems of local government and

CHARITABLE All) REFORM should be faced, and if possible solved without further delay. A measure which it is hoped will • reduce the number of our too numerous local councils, while at the same time concentrating their functions and strengthening their financial will shortly be laid before ™ ou, I trust that you will, this session, see your way to re-adjust the Customs tariff, For the purpose of collecting information of service to Parliament and the Government in dealing with this complicated matter I appointed a Eoyal Commission consisting of well-known gentlemen of public experience. An exhaustive report prepared by the Commissioners will be submitted to you. Full and fair opportunity will be afforded you for discussing the yexed and interesting question of LICENSING REFORM.

Bills have been prepared designed to check excessive rates of usury and to protect and preserve for the families of working settlors the homes which they have made their own. Measures are ready for your

consideration, dealing with the relations of masters and apprentices; public tenders and contracts; ™ nd with the restriction of the influx of race aliens and certain persons. You will be asked to pass Bills dealing with Stateschool teachersand matters I condition with secondary education, and also to amend the law concerning jnries. These proposals I cornmenu' to your attention. 1 earnestly assure you of my wish to aid your exertions for the good of the Colony, and I pray that with God's blessing these proposals may tend to promote the welfare and prosperity of the people of New Zealand. MEW BILLS. Notico was given yesterday of the following new bills: -• The Hon. the Premier: Uniforms, Dog Registration Act Amendment, Criminal Code Amendment, Local Government, Contagious Diseases Act Repeal, Expiring Laws Continu- : ance, Representation, Corrupt Practices Prevention, Adulteration Prevention, Ministers Salaries and Allowances, Alcoholic Liquors Sales f Control Amendment. Hon Mr Reeves: Masters and Apprentices, Hospitals and Charitable Aid, Public School Teachers Court of Appeal, Public Tenders, Contracts and Works.Wages Attachment Abolition, Servants Registry Offices, •. Adoption of Children, Wußtiial Schools Act Amendment, t'/'anierbury College Constitution. Hon .Mr McKenzie: Homes Protection, Native "Lands, Land for Setiloment Act Amendment, Public Reserves, Noxious Weeds, Fencing Bill. f Notice was also_ given of the following new Bi. 'ls in the name of the Hon. Mr Ward: -Beet Root Sugar, Local Authorities '• Loan Conversion, Rating on Unh/nproved Values, Land and Incomo .Tax Assessment, Loans to Local Bodi'es Amendment, Mr C. H. Mills I as given notice to re-introduce his Criminal Code Amendment Bill with the object of re-opening the Chomis i'ase,