PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5062, 27 June 1895, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

—'— M '■ JOTTINGS. ' ' ▼ y' . A deputation of M.H.R.'b and prominent settlers waited on the Minister for Lands yesterday morning, to urge the Government to take over the re-erection of theManawatn Gorge Bridge and the maintenance of the Gorge road, as well as the revenue from the toll gate. The j • Minister promised to lay the matter before Cabinet. Captain Russell says, apropos of the Government decision not to außwer questions yesterday, Parliament is becoming more and more a machine for the registration of the will of the Premier. L A petition from Eli Caselberg and W. P. Stephens, of Rangitikci, storekeepers, sets out that their promises were destroyed owing to firo caused by bush being burned by emnkves of the Crown, and asks for coflfinsation. "Their cup is not yet fnil. We / should fix them in the pillory of public scorn, so that the people may know them for what they are."—MiGeorge Hutchison on the Ministry. FIRST BMDIXGS. ■-'"' The following Bills wero introduced and read a first time:—Mr Lawry, the Gaming and Lotteries / Act Amendment • Mr Morrison, the Imprisonment for Debt Abolition; Hon, Sir R, Stout, the Homes Security and. the New Zealand Journalists' Institute; Dr Newman, the Slander of Women; Hon. Mr Cadman, the Post Office. BRIEF. H In answer to a request that provision should be. made in the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Amending Bill for preventing the transfer of a publicans license from one township to another, the Premier pointed out that this could bo done j when the Bill came before the House. J, Mr Montgomery yosterdayWted the Premier to amend the Standing Orders to provont the House sitting after midnight. Mr Seddon thought that if members would make up their minds not to obstruct tho business of the House, they could go 4 home at midnight every night, The Government are obtaining a report upon the advisability of establishinga Eirelnsurance Department upon the same lines as the Government Lifo Insnranco Department. Pending the report, the' Minister of Lands yesterday f> informed Mr G. J, Smith, the ; Government could say nothing. The Minister of Education thinks that about the beginning of next session, the time will havo arrived for placing the several inspectors of schools under the direct control of the Education \ Department, _ Mr Joyce- is asking for tho j&tablishmont of an inebriates'Ame. Finance will not permit just now, it I the answer of the Minister of Justice, The Premier has promisod to reconsider the question of continuing A the grants to fire brigades. He however is of opinion that the insurance companies should be compelled so support the brigades, A Bill to amend the Shops Mid Shop Assistants Act is to be introduced this session. In it the Minister will endeavour to do away with tho exemptions put in the Bill of last session by the Legislative Council. A reduction in the haulage charges of potatoes, is being asked of tho Minister of Railways, by Mr G. W. Russell. The Minister for Labour wbb { asked yesterday, " If, before men : are sent from a distance to cooperative works, ho will cause enquiries to be made, so as tifceertain if the local men are in s»t of work, with a view of letting men who live on the spot have a fair share of tho work, if it is found that hthey are really in need of it ?" Mr Relives stated that the Labour Department endeavoured to be as fair as possible in distributing the work to be unemployed of the different districts. It was not to be thought, however, that because there were eonie big works going on in k any one particular district, all tho unemployed in that district were to be found work before any from other districts in which there were no works. Tho people of the Colony, as a whole, paid for the G ovornment works, and ' because these works happened to be in a particular dis- A. trict, the unemployed of that district wero not to have the whole of the benefit of them.—N.Z. Times.