PARLIAMENTARY. (From our Special Correspondent.) Government Buildings, Wellington, Thursday. THE WAIKATO TIMES A SUBSIDISED GOVERNMENT ORGAN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 650, 22 July 1876, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY. (From our Special Correspondent.) Government Buildings, Wellington, Thursday. THE WAIKATO TIMES A SUBSIDISED GOVERNMENT ORGAN.

Mr Sheelmri gavo notice last night that he wdqM move for a return, showing all raonojs p.wd to Waikato Times bj Government.

The New C'ohonei's Bill.— On the second reading of the Coroner '• Act Amendment Bill in the Fouso on Wednesdnj lust, the Hon Mr Bawen stated that the reasons which induced the Government to bring down such a bill It provides that Roticiutit Magistrate* shall be Coroners, and that jurie* shall consiit of from foiu fo aoven ; and that where a jury cannot be obtained, wJiich is often verj difficult in thinly settled districts, the Baaident Maoist r*te mar hold the inquest without a jury. He said it wai tie generallj eipressed opinion that coroners fchould not be medical men, some of the reasons being that medical men, when coroners, often hid to superintend incjuoits upon their own patients, and sometime- upon the bodiet of tho&e who had been patients of their professional rival*. It wao consequently ihiught better to hare any medical opiuion reo^uirad as the opinion* of exp'rts.