PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5064, 29 June 1895, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

JOTTINGS. Mr Massey yesterday presented petition from 132 farmers protostin the imposition of a duty o •ffiheep dip. iy ~ The Hon Mr Steward is enquii ing as to what is being done aboi the Ballance Momorial. Mr M'Nab says that employes ai being accepted as bondsmen fc employers in connection with th telepone. They are compelled t i sign nnder danger of dismissal, an ) are sometimes lot in for the raone On the doparturo of their employer, 1 Mr Duthio wants to know ho\ the proceeds of the Bank of Nei Zealand call have been invested. Mi' Duthio says the Governmeu i should see that there is bette -{ accommodation for tourists up tli Wanganui River and in the'iuterioi but Prohibition blocks tlio way. Mr O'Regan is requisitioning tli Government to provide an "Ol< Men's Homo" for the West Coast The request tickled the Houso. MrM'Lachlun posed last night, a mth authority on bread, and told tin House that he was for years a bake in his youth, and has seen a deal o taking since ho bocamo a nlnrriei man. Mr Duthie thinks there shouli be no attachment of wages. Mr G. W. Russell thinks thr matrimonial agencies springing n| V throughout the Colony, require verj close supervision. Mr Duthie says that tliougi there aro some abnses, tin servants' registry offices of (Ik Colony do their duty fairly well. Mi Reeves says the Bill he is fathering has been asked for by some of the ■*) best of the registry office keepers. Mr M'Lachlan last night rose on behalf of his constituents tocomplain of "the useless, impractical Bills ' passed by this Minister." He was .speaking on Mr Reeves' Servants' (Registry Bill. Mr G. 17. Russell has given notice of a Bill for" the Periodical Revaluation of Lands Leased in Perpetuity." It is to apply to all State lands. There is only £22G of arrears in the Cheviot rents, and the Minister for Lands says this is not duo by the village settlers but by large settlers. t The Cheviot he says has been an * ntidoubted success. There are now 800 people there instead of 80, and they are doing well, and the Government is getting 5 per cent on the purchase monoy. " Cheviot," says Mr McKeuzie," wants no defence from anyone. It speaks for itself." —Pod fy Mr La wry said yesterday he never in his life saw more drunkenness on a racecourse than he saw at the lastrace meeting at the Hutt, and this * was at a meeting for which the LicensingCommitteerefused to grant liquor licenses. Mr Boll: 41 Oh, j. nonsense." Dr Newman also contradicted Mr Lawry's assertion. Sir T. Mackenzie says there are in the House who would vote gainst the continuance of Bellamy's, but who themselves keep private cellars equal to any in the Colony, The Contagious Diseases Act 186'? Repeal Bill (Mr Seddon's) provides >. for the repeal of the Act of 1569, and any penalty, forfeiture, or other punishment for offences committed under the Act, * The Hon, W. M, Bolt has given ■ notice of a series of very lengthy resolutions which he intends moving in the Legislative Council, their ,< object being that the State shall provide employment for artisans and labourers, male arid female, providing they are deserving persons, and lack work through no fault of their own. The member for Waimca-Picton, Mr C. H. Mills, is working most } energetically to obtain support for his Criminal Code Amendment Bill, providing for a Royal Commission JH Enquiry into the case of the conWct Louis Chemis. Yesterday morning, Mr Mills prevailed upon some 30 members anil a half-dozen pressmen, to attend an experiment ho bad arranged for, and which he thought would show conclusively tbat the strongest link in the chain of ovidence, against Chemis, contained a most palpable (law. The experiment took place in a yard near the Freezing Works on the reclaimed land, and consisted of the firing of * charges of shot at a coat placed on a sack of sawdust, under circumstances similar to those which are supposed to have existed at the shooting of Hawkins. Several shots wore tired at different distances, and with varying charges of powder and shot, >_ and in only one case did the paper used as a wad pass through the coat, In this case the muzzle of the gun was placed almost Jouching the coat, and the paper which entered the sack of sawdust was charred and in very small pieces; in fact almost unrecognisable as paper. Mr Mills claimed from the result of this test that it would have been impossible to have fired the paper into the body of Hawkins in the manner alleged at ihe trial.—jV. 'L Times.