PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5088, 27 July 1895, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

JOTTINGS. Tho Hon. J. McGregor has given notice that he will movo for tho introduction of a Bill to abolish tho Grand Jury system, Mr Crowther says "ho does not beliove in nationalising anything that bolongs to anotlior." "Directly some individual dies without tho assistance of a medical man, " said Mr Hogg last night on the Coroners' inquest Bill. Uo got 110 further, Mr Massey is urging tho initiation of a schemo for planting waste lands available for settlement with forest trees, Mr Hogg accuses Wairarapa constables of taking men for Coroners' juries out of public-house bars, often the worse for liquor. Mr T. McKenzin attributes tho Hon, AV. Steward's appeal to have Coroners' juries paid to his anxiety to find employment for tho unemployed of his district, where a gieat Unci of skeletons was recently made. " It sounded like the vision of a diseased imagination," quoth iflr Tanner yesterday regarding Mr Hogg's lurid picture of Wairarapa juries. " Point of order. Sir," cried tho Premier, " can an honourable member accuse another of having a ; diseased imagination Y' " I don't think it is any reflection," said the Chairman of Committee (Mr Guinness), and while some cried " Oh!" the irreverent laughed, j The Minister for Justice and the Premier last night announced tho Government's desire to abolish Coroners' juries, and leave the duties to the Coroners and Magistrates, but the House, by -t0 to 20, decided against it, a vote being taken 011 an amendment by Mi Reeves in regard I to the Coroners' Juries Bill— Fust. ,