IN AND ABOUT PARLIAMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5071, 8 July 1895, Page 2

IN AND ABOUT PARLIAMENT.

_Mr W. Hutchison is introducing his Bill this session to empower municipal, corporations to undertake insurance against lire, of building within their respective boroughs. Mr Hogg has been agitating for some time past for an improvement in the state of tho stockyards at the Masterton Ilailway Station. The yards have been in a filthy stateever since the wet weather set in, and aB a result of Mr Hogg's communications on tho subject, tho Minister of Railways has promised that this state of things shall bo remedied. The Hon Major Steward wants a section of the Midland Eailwaygono on with at oice, and urges that the unemployed of Waimate should be found work thereon.

The first real case of obstruction during the present session occurred when the Native Townships Bill was before the House on Friday ovoning. Certain members, not friends of tho Government, spoke all round clauso 2 of tho measure in order to te delay its passing until the arrival of Hone Heke, who was expected to arrive in Wellington by the 10 o'clock train. Tho result was that sorao four horns were spent over the ono clause. An incident of the tetnporanco I deputations to the Premier, last Thursday, lias given rise to the following question on to-morrow's Order Paper, from Mr Lawry■:— "If it is true, as reported in the public press, that the Premier was present when au influential member of an important organised body, offered to. compound an ' alleged felony for a stated consideration; if so, did bo resent the offer as being an insult ta tho sacred dignity of law and order V'—N.Z, Times,