PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 248, 26 October 1897, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

.yTele^-ParHarnentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day. MR J- G. WARD. , Ward will apply for his discharge as JlrSon the sth November before a r S ill. J "The horowhenua bill. m Porowhemia Bill will be brought Tl\v the Minister for Lands as soon as *>*?£* on the Financial Statement is *<# The object of the Bill is to Block XIV native f and [compel Kemp to prove his title lan> vn regardless of Kemps former fc.TndWiof the lapd to Sir W. Boiler, WJ TriH also provide for payment of The- he Bnller cases out of ttie public the Public Trustee of J^t difficulty. SOME QUEER TACTICS. •Creasing the Maori deputation yester.tV Premier said he would give one ftnee to show how matters had been SSd in connection with native land *f-f the past. In 1896 a Land Bill was & ?£ fCgislative Council, and when "L back from the revisory chamber Se Premier) was informed that there „.„„ ij U t technical amendments **? to the Bill. It was not until raade 3, e Bill became law that f ter discovered the addition of a A the effect of which would be )i° MO 000 acres of land would go to the S, Ssentatives of old Maoris who Q floned certain papers. He felt sure Zn tlis transaction was exposed in Parv J iiistice would be done to the ha£ If he had noticed the alteration Krouid have blocked it, butlie had trusted i the revisory chamber, and it was there ?. wron a had been done in the past, and vie wrong would be done again, wanse in that Chamber they !. P rein favour of free trade in native land. I W ould point this out, that they must kvein the Legislative Council those who lildwork in unison wish them. If the Maori members in the Legislative Council had known of the presence of the amendment it would never have been carried. It was done so nicely and calmly that it «taken As a matter of form, but it was 1 lesson to teach them that they must be lore careful in future The little word dipped in before the Native Arlairs Committee was "mortgaged." THE RAILWAY CROSSING DIS--1 ASTER,

Mr Crowther this afternoon gave notice toaskthe Minister of Railways whether, in view of the recent deplorable accident at the railway crossing at Auckland station, it is the intention of the Government to have a gate erected at the crossing, or take 4eps to prevent similar accidents in the fotme.