LATE PARLIAMENTARY

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 275, 26 November 1897, Page 5

LATE PARLIAMENTARY

(By Telegraph.— Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

STOCK COMMITTEE

The Stock Committee this morning took wie evidence of Mr Gilruth, Government ' etermary Expert, who stated that in his experience he had never discovered a real ■«c of cancer in cattle in the colonies," Plough he believed a cancerous growth ex- , . Several Canterbury experts were -cammed m reference to the frozen meat Auckland members fear that 1 u, se,5> which compels local bodies to £nn a°attoirs where the population is •aw or upwards will seriously affect places Newmarket, On'elmnga, etc. OLD AGE PENSIONS. JeHouse this afternoon will proceed "™ the Old Age Pension Bill in Coraaiittee. MAORI COUNCILS P,[LL. i atla Waharoa and others, who have euy here promoting the constitution of \virl V,i °Uncils Bill> to be satisfied tphj i i secon<l reading of the measure, "icuthey regard as affirming the prin2 eoff-he Bill. It is expected the JiiH .'undergo important changes before the «on° V? £ IVaiva Committee, but will not S tore tliC Hovi-se a-ain- until next BanL Meanwhile t!ie natives will oriu in ♦ir6? l"l'*B in ™pport of the measure p*".tlle important rlistviets. to which the vited and the Hon- Carroll will be in-