POLITICAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2063, 19 June 1896, Page 3

POLITICAL.

"MrSeddon's ABiatio Restriction Bill puts a -poll tax of £100 on every Asiatic comingi into the colony, the "rights of residents being saved. Mr Hall-Jones has a Bill repealing the Contagious Diseoees Act, and Mr (t. \V. Eussel one for the ad mission of women to all public offices or positions open to menSirßobt Stout's Defamation Bill, affectins- newspapers and all publications, is the saaio as the Bill he -had la.t year. _ Mr Heke has a Bill for the election ot a Maori to moke laws to ci-? > c lumv.iy deal with ihe pereon*' ■ rightr UfiirfU »nd all other.property of the N-i'-yc;* -of Now Z^l'ind.

.., (. Tl." ..

n or G —'

■provida. ■il:-;jt CtW<H; vc-'--; lain ihmgw ;<"< 7frjHrr« <-£iffS<V riftilM'f 0 »< j

recover more cost* Ihim damages unless on the ceit'ficato of the. Judge. Tbe Hon. J. G. Ward sobs South today. The New Zealand Times refers t> Mr Ward's political services—the re-orsfani-sation of-the cable service, the floating-of tha'jfirst Australasian 3 per cent loan. &c. "No man," concludes the writer, "'ever made eiioh a sacrifice to the Liberal c?use as Mr "Ward did in his'oeaseless round of labour for the public cause." The Post soys : " Tbe moei brrtwr enemy ax~ Treasurer oould not wish him a greater hurtle- his political reputation than be inflicted on himself by his speech. Begun ostensibly in explanation of his unfor-tunate-position, his speech quickly degen* eretid into a series of bitter personal attacks upon various gentlemen mentioned by name, whom he charged with conepir« acy to ruin hire- Had he addressed himself with dignity nnd lifederation to an explanation of the' causes'that have led f> the present crisis in his fortune, ho might fit least have commanded some commiseration for his fall in respect for his past.''