POLITICAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1668, 8 July 1892, Page 2

POLITICAL.

[By Telegraph.]

[From odr own Correspondent.]

Wellington, July 7.

A spirited discussion came off this afternoon upon the question of putting duty on imported coals, which lasted till dinner adjournment without a division being taken. The member for Mount Ida is in the Rangitiki district assisting his friend Mr Bruce, whose candidature for a seat in the Legislature will be decided to-morrow. Therefore Mr Scobie McKenzie's important motion as to the class of persons his Excellency should be advised to call to the Upper House has been postponed for a fortnight. Your member is giving notice of the injustice which Mr Harry Piper, of Duvauchelle's, has suffered for the past two years by reason of the Maoris preventing him occupying his estate at Rotorua, and for which property he has a title under the Lnnd Transfer Act. The Hon. J. C. Richmond has resigned his sent in the Upper House, which is the third vacancy in that chamber within the hist month. The Licensed Victuallers Compensation Bill is the second order for its second reading to night. The division will be a close one. The Bill provides that the local body, the freeholder, and the licensed victuallers shall each pay a sum equal to per cent of license fee into a special fund, out of which compensation to the publican and his landlord shall be paid. A report is current that the promotor of the Bill will intimate to the House, when moving the second reading, that in Committee he will substitute " brewer" for •' local body," to contribute to the compensation fund,