POLITICAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2817, 2 August 1890, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

(HVTHtKCIIAPII— OWX miMKSI'ONIIKNT.) Wkm.ixctox, Last Night. THF AUCTIONEERS'MLL. Tun town and country members wen pitted against each other last night in tin committal of Mr Seddon's Auctioneers Bill, the chief purpose of which is t. enab'e the holder of an auctioneers' licensi to sell in any part of the colony, the fen payable on it only being paid to the locn authority of the distiict where the, appli calion is made. The fourth clause o the Kill was designed to give the applicant the option whether he will apply for hi, license in the district where he carries or business or in that where he resides. Tie. use of the words " in which he resides " wa. viewed by the city members as a deep-laic plot to enable s.iburban and country dis tracts in which many of the knight; of the hammer reside to receivt the revenue. Mr D. Stewart ni»ved to strike out the phrase. Mr R. Thompson warned Air Seddon that if this were done his Bill would never be allowed to pass. The motion having been lost by 2o to 17 Mi Kish and one or two other city members declared war against the 'Mill, and proceeded to stonewall it. Alternate motions that progress be roported and the chairman leave the chair kept the ball rolling till some time after midnight. Mr Seddon offered to amend the clause so as to provide that the fees should be payable to the local bodies of the district in which the auctioneer exercise his license, but this compromise did not satisfy Mr Fish, who continued to make most grandiloquent speeches, to tho huge amusement of the bare quorum of members who remained. Much of his banter wasdirected pit Mr Newman and Mr Izard, whom he taxed with having played their game out in the city, the interests of which they now abandoned because they went to seek solace on tho desert plains of the Hntt. Mr Fish held on the even tenor of his way until Mr Seddon gracefully gave way and agreed to report progress upon the Pill rather than risk pi count out which would have effected the P.ill left by the late Mr Tnrnbull, which lion, members were generally desirous of passim/. LATI: BILLS. Material amendments in the provisions of the Factories and Shops Bill will be proposed by the Labour Bill Committee. At to-day's sitting of the committee it was decided to propose that no feimile under the age of IS, and no boy under l."i be. allowed to work in printing otlices at type setting. The clauses relating to shop hours were reached, and were so generally disapproved of by the committee that it was decide.' to have them drafted anew and entirely remodelled.