PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5061, 26 June 1895, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

MORE NATIVE LEGISLATION. A new phase of native legislation is introduced in the Native Town- .\ ships Bill of the Minister of Lauds, which sets out that for the purposes of promoting settlement and opening up the interior of the North Island it is essential that townships should he established at various centres where in many cases the native title cannot at present bo extinguished in the ordinary way by purchase by the Crown, and where other difficulties exist by reason whereof the progress of settlement is impeded. The Bill provides that by proclamation areas not exceeding f acres shall be set apart as sites native townships, such sites to be rayed and laid off with streets, allotments, and reserves, Thenative owners shall have reserved for them allotments for the purposes of residence and cultivation not exceeding in the whole one-tenth of the total j area of the township, and the balance . of the township allotments shall be h submitted at auction to a 42 years' lease. Native owners may sell their interests in tho township. Tho Governor-in-Council may provide such regulations and form of local government as may from time to time be thought fit. ÜBOIIR MATTERS. ■\ ■ Labour members are suggesting that, instead of working the cooperative men only five days in each week, so as to make tho work go further, they bo employed for live ts full time, and then be given a 's holiday, during which many of them could visit their homes, Mr Frank M'Donnell, the Hon, Sec of the Queensland Early Closing Association, has written to the Labour Department, eulogising the Minister for Labour and Mr Tregoar, says tho Tost, FIRST READINGS. v- The followiug Bills were read a first time in the House yesterday : Mr Collins, Divorce Act Amendment; Mr Lang, Punui Reserves Sale; Mr Pinkerton,Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage; Mr G. J. Smith, Property Law Consolidation Act 1883 Amendment; Mr Piukerton k (for Mr W. Hutchison), Franchise at Municipal Elections in Boroughs, and Literary Copyright in New Zealand; Mr Joyce, Unclaimed Moneys. TIIE ADBRESS-IN-REPLT DEBATE. At twenty minutes to four o'clock I the Address-in-Reply debate was resumed, and continued until the *.se rose at raid-night, on the ion of Mr W. C. Buchanan. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. The House yesterday granted leavo of absence for a fortnight to Mr McGuiie, and for a week to Mr » W. Hutchison. The former is absent from the Colony, and the latter, we regret to learn,is suffering ill-health. PAYMENT OF CORONERS' JURIES, The Hon. Major Steward, in his Coroners' Inquests Bill, makes pioTision for the payment of jurors attending coroners' inquests, at the '' following rates:-If a juror shall have travelled over two miles to attend such inquest, 6s for everyday for which be shall have attended for over four hours, and 4s 6d for every day's attendance of less than four hours. For jurors who have a less f. distance than two miles to travel, the payment will be respectively 5s and 3s Gd, ft " I'OETRY," During the debate on the Address yesterday, Sir Robert Stout drifted into poetry and in tragic accents < exclaimed : " Enow those thy faithfu 1! Best they honor thee Who honour in thee only what is best," when E. M. Smith brought down the House by striking his chest and ' exclaiming " That's mo." i| GENERAL. Mrs Sarah Jane Lett, of Wellington, is petitioning for a block of land for her 12 sons, who are unable to obtain remunerative employment. The boys are New Zealauders. Petitions praying for the Amend- .-, ment of the Shops and Shop Assistants Act, were presented to the House yesterday. The Post Office Bill (Mr Cadman), ■Jje Slander of Women Bill (Dr, Hewman), and the Licensing Acl Amendment Bill (Mr McNab), wer< given notice of yesterday. a A subsidy of 20s in the £ for improvements effected on agricultural show grounds and buildings is beinf advocated by the Hon. Mr Larnach The number of permits grantee under the Gaming and Lotteries Aci to religious denominations and tt racing clubs during the year ondinj .*. March, 1895, is asked for by Mi

Meredith. MrLarnach wants the Government to issue railway tickets at any Lour of the day in the same manner as postage stamps. The Threshing Machine Owners Lien Bill (Major Steward) makes * provision for securing to threshing machine-owners a preference claim for the cost of threshing grain or A ■ seeds.— N.Z. Times. JOTTINGS. The Pharmacy Bill does not propose to prerent the salo, but the iti compounding and dispensing of • HecHcincß," by anyone not a registered chemist or medical man. Mr McLachlan is to move," That the Minister for Eailways lay a return before this House, giving the difference in the cost of running that class of first-class carriage known as the bird-cage and ordinary first-class '\ f ' carriage. My J. W. Kelly wants a return laid before the House showing the expense incurred on tho opening day of the present session of Parliament: (1.) Cost of gunpowdei consumed. (2.) Monoy paid tc persons in charge of horses and ") guns. Mr .Earnshaw is asking for i xetnrn, in continuation of the Returr P.—sc, 1893) showing the numbei and ■ earnings of men on railwaj and rail-work construction worki under the co-operative system, so as v to complete such return nnto thi i u 'BlrtMMoh,lß9s. Mr Hogg has given notice to movi for a return of all holdings of oye: 1,000 acres, giving the names of tb localities, area, number o flhoiils resident, and number of hand at present employed on each hole 1 > ing; also the number of employe at the corresponding period of Ifli Mr Hogg i* also to move, that i tiew ofthe great»ndurgentdeman

i that exists for labour sottleinow i the scarcity of Crown laud suitaL ' for the purpose, and the relief thai i would bo given to the labour markol ■ if better facilities for this form ol '. colonisation were afforded, it is desirable that immediate legislation bo introduced enabling tho State, after making proper reservations for the Native owners, to take by Proclamation all areas of uncultivated Native lands that may be required for settlement purposes; the ascertainment of title and payment of compensation to bo a matter for subsequent consideration. Tho final contingent of Auckland membcrs,including the Speakciyif tor an antibilious passage of forty-eight hours, arrived per Takapuua this morning, The Minister of Lands appears to have entirely recovered from his illness. A ball was held at the Wellington Club last evening, and it is difficult to keep a House together.