PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5087, 26 July 1895, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

JOTTINGS. Mr Joyce has ascertained from Captain Adams, of H.M.S. Pylad(s, that at least a hundred trained boys avo sent from England annually for Mtaliau Squadron, and ho is wgiWtiiis as a practical roason for the establishmontjof a training-ship here. Mr Massey yesterday presented petitions from 345 persons praying tbat " arm to arm" vaccination be abolished, that Government keep healthy heifers from which to procure lymph, and that it be made a , penal olfonco to use any other, Mr M'Lajlilau considers" the best lease of all is the freehold." Mr Mackintosh pathetically asked list night" where were the sturdy British yeomen who fought on Flrdden Field ?" The House didn't know. The Agent-General is being instructed by letter to sec Siemens & Co, ns to their proposals respecting ironsand works. that £150,000. The Treasurer told Captain Rusloll on Thursday that that the £150,000 received from the Bank of Now Zealand under the New Zealand Consols Act has a currency till M10y.31 per cent., conditional not desiring to take up Consols to the amount permitted by the Act in which caso tlio Bank agrees to accept transfers. This is the sum paid over to the Colonial Bank, and the transaction which II r Muslin assured the House, in seconding the Address-in-Reply, was "impossible " and " illegal," and upon which ho pledged himself, should it prove true, that he would vote for the Opposition. Dr. Newman afterwards gave notice to ask why the Bank of New Zealand, after getting a guaranteed loan of £2,000,000 at 4 per cent, was compelled by the Treasurer to invest £150,000 of it in New Zealand Consols at 3| per cent, thus involving a loss, while the ► money received from the Bank of Now Zealand was then lent to anothor Bank at 4 per cent.

SUNDAY TI'ADIN'G. Mr G. W. Russell pointed out to tho House on Thursday as remarked by Mr Bishop, S.M., at Christcliurch, that if four young men could go rourjk. one Ijjunday evening and get so easily as to secure convictions in six cases, and propose i prosecutions in eight more which wero withdrawn, Sunday trading inustbe very prevalent. He thought some alteration was required in the police management under which such things were possible. The Premier said the system of management is perfect. All that is required is for the police to do their duty. He condemned alike publicans who by so offending brought discredit on their calling and the informers, who did not .hesitate to use subterfuge to 'induce the publicans to break tho law.

POMTtCAL SBWIXG MACHISK AGENTS, Mr W. Hutchison on Wednesday expended lachrymose eloquence over the woes of purchasers of pianos and sewing machines on the "purchase hire system," and moved a ( wordy motion calling for legislation on the subject. Mr 11. Thompson satirically Mgfiffffid that as Government, was .interJKng in every sort of business nowadays, it had better take over the system itself, and arrange for a supply of sewing machines on purchase hire by way of cutting out the wicked traders. Mr Hutchison's motion was lost by 37 to 19. .srmisiui's.

Mr W. Hutchison moved yestorday, that the Government procure tjv'o fast passenger boats and establish daily' communication between Wellington and Lyttelton. The Colpnial Treasurer, amid a rattle of '■ H«jr, hears," said the Government did not consider the fiino had yet arrived for this. Mr Hogg, however, supported the proposal. Mr R, McKeiizie pointed out that it was quite lis jiecessiity for there to be a steam peryice qver ('he rest of the Colony, ftnd if the Government were to take I), monopoly of the Wellingtontmde, the Union Company piiist make up for it by increasing the fares between Wellington and Auckland and over the rest of the Colony. This was one of those silly, fooM mqtiqns, put on the Order fojaTfo kill time, with a view to Itsstfl Government not to proceed with business too rapidly. (Laughter). Mrßuddo considered the Union Company's service was one of the very best of its kind in the world, and its officers compared much more than "favourably for courtesy and attention with the Government railway servants, and the Company should be left alono. The Premier thought the motion was not silly, when members proposed Government working the coal mines, and one member suggested their going into tho sewing machine trade. If the railway was made from the Red Post to Blenheim, it would be quito right for Government to have ferry steamers connecting tho lines across tho Straits, The motion had been well thought out by tte' mover—(laughter) —but he was |oo far ju adyance—(laughter)— (jnd lie did not'understand the motion pejiig treafed with such uiiduo levity] ifr E, M, Smith said tlmf M' e experi T piicp of the Government with the SteJlq, and the Pilot, and the difficulty they found in getting rid of them,shouldhavc given themenqugh of stwtfljip owning. The Union Contfm/s boats wero magnificeut, ' Mombers only wanted these fancy steamers so that tlioy might get free passes. (" Oh!") Mr Crojvtlier said the Treasurer's reply was gentlemanly,statesman!y,aud courteous, and no other reply was necessary from the Government. Tho Premier had besmeared the question with the Lord knew what. The House looked to him to lead it,butnottoleaditinto foolishness, and such business as this pade hjs (MrCrow'ther's) head ache. .. (La'ugjitef). Mr Tanner considered J riglit 'in theory,' but it would bo better for Government to get Bteamers to bring coal from the West Coast, for the stale of that traffic was now littleshortof criminal. Mr I'latman thought they should have a Select Committee with two issues—whether totunnel the Straits or establish a steam line. Mr G, W. Russell considered the State shonld, as Mr Ballanco had contemplated, < supply its railways from coal-mines wttj® by itself, and'carry the coal ■" in itsown bottoms, Mr Hall-Jones amidst roars of laughter, read from a speech delivered by Mr Seddon in 1890, proposiitg to buy the Union Company's fleet and all'the'Now iZealind-traders', anc| ftp them oh . Government account! After a discussion'' lasting some time 'Mr jjutijbjsqn withdrew his motion,'—