PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5063, 28 June 1895, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

JOTTINGS. A State farm for the South Island is contemplated. Mr Lawry Ims given notice of the Deceased Husband's Brother Marriage Bill. Mr Earnshaw considers t-ho Ministry one of the most extravagant that has ever sat upon the benches. "The creed of the Government Party seems to consist in reiteration of the words,' We are Liberals,' " quoth Dr Newman. Dr Newman says that some of the Government supporters attribute to Ministers all the virtues of a patent medicine. Mr Hogg does not agree with the condemnations hurled on the Lending Board of the Advances to « Settlers Act. \ Mr Earnshaw considers that never ■ within the last 14 years has depression been so severely felt in Otago, as now, and yet the Governor's Speech says to the contrary. llr Flatinan quite came out of liis shell last night. He said Mr Buchanan's speech, which he followed, was dry hash—made out of Welsh rabbit, Irish stew, and Scotch haggis. —Surely a remarkable "dry hash," The Minister for Hallways is now engaged in the arduous work of preparing a scheme of compensation for the whole railway service, The Minister for Labour is agreeable to reduce the fee under the Factories Act, to Is, in the case of small factories where only the family or two or throe persons are employed. The Government is to introduce a Bill to enable settlers to wire rabbitinfested areas, and obtain advances jflrom tiie Treasury for the purpose. ™ Mr Buchanan considers it most unfortunate that in connection with the loan circular the Agent-General should have so misrepresented the Colony, and made statements which must recoil on it. Inspections of shearing sheds are to be made as far as possible, in future prior to the shearing season. The Minister of Labour says he has Lad evidence as to the good effect of inspection. Mr Lawry believes match factories | and such things employing cheap j boy and girl labour will bring down wa»cs .here as they have done elsewhere. Such industries should not be fostered here, Paratene Mateugaand 230 other Wairarapa natives are petitioning for the appoiutment of a medical practitioner to attend upon them, in accordance with a promise made by the Government in purchasing the Wairarapa Blocks in 1853-4. This is, the Premier says, the last year in which the Manawatu Rail«iway can be taken over by Government without the increment of 5 per cent, on the price, and consequently it will be necessary for the House to deal with the matter this session. It will be dealt with in the Public Works Statement. Paratene Matenga and 181 other; Wairarapa natives are petitioning against the rating of their lands under the Act of 1894. They object to the valuer appointed, and the values he has put upon their lands, rating the bad at more than the good, and also to the rating of their burial-grounds and churches. -Pod. Thefoilowingßills wereintroduced and read a first time in the House yesterday:—Mr Allen, a Bill to Amend the River Boards Act; Mr Lawry, the Deceased Husband's Brother Marriage Bill; Sir Robert *- Stout, the Defamation Bill. | The Imprest Supply Bill passed through all its Btages; the Election of Governor Bill was killed; the second reading." of the Uniforms Bill, the Evidence Further Amendment Bill, the Adulteration Prevention «Act Amendment Bill, Criminal Code '■ Amendment Bill, Servants' Registry Office Bill, Dog Registration Act imendment Bill. Natke Townships Bill, Public Tenders Bill, and Wages jLttachment Abolition Bill,-vere.all .carried, the House rising at raidought