PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8523, 30 June 1893, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

APPOINTMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY OFFICERS. By Telegraph. [FROM OUR SPECIAL COnRESPOST>EST. ] WELLINGTON. June 29. In the correspondence relating to the officers of Parliament laid on the table of the House between Mr Barron, chief of the Hansard staff, and the Speaker, Major Steward, both strongly recommended Mr Kay's appointment. Their recommendations were ignored, and Russell and Gore, two private secretaries of Ministers, were appointed at the maximum salary of £300. The Premier, in notifying to the Speaker tho latter appointments vice Mr Parkinson, resigned, wrote—" In respect of this and other similar appointments, the Government look upon them as promotion to deserving and competent .officers, and arrangements made by which the services of this and Mr Russell will be utilised during the recess, by which a very considerable saving in the public expenses will result." Tha correspondence received from the Speakers of otner Colonial Legislatures show that officers of Parliament have no duties out- , side the recess, and are nnder the Speaker, and not employed in any Government department. JOTTINGS. I In addition to the temporary redistribution of portfolios already indicated the Hon. Mr Ward will take charge of the [ printing department. I The Native Trusts and Claims Definition and Regulation Bill, introduced by the Hon. Mr Carroll, merely deals with South Island i reserves. The object is to define certain trusts, and individualise the interests of the Natives enquired into and reported on by Judge Mackay. Mr Rees has determined not to move for a Select Committee to investigate the charges against the late Native Minister as he threatened on Tuesday, but will be content with the moral victory gained in the recent libel action. At to-day's Cabinet meeting Mr Samuel Costall was appointed Government Printer. Mr Cos tall has been head of the clerical branch of the printing office for some time, and has acted temporarily as Government Printer since Mr Didsbary's death. i Arrangements are being made by the Postmaster-General by which the San Francisco mail will leave London one week earlier, and New Zealand one week later than at present. By this means ample time will be given for replying to correspondence received by the incoming steamer by the next outward mail. The Imprest Supply Bill for £258,500 was | passed through all its stages in the House \ this afternoon.. The Direct Veto Bill which Sir R. Stout is bringing before the House is the skeleton of a bulky measure which was prepared on behalf of the New Zealand Aihance. The main provisions as to a triennial poll on general election day, and giving the people the direct right of veto are maintained, but the extraneous provisions of the measure are eliminated. The probabilities are that there will be a substantial majority in favour of the Bill. The Native Bills shadowed in the Speech from the Throne will be introduced at the latter end of next week. The Electoral Bill distributed to-night is practically in the same form as it left the Lower House last session. An elector can only register on one roll, and women are ineligible to become members of the House, or of being appointed to the Council. Under the Municipal Corporations Bill no ratepayer can have more than three votes in respect of any property where the rateable value is £50, one vote is permitted in a ward election; where between £50 and £150 two votes, and where over £150 in value three votes. The import of the alteration in the existing Act is tha.h--& ratepayer, ijo,; matter what property he owns in a Dorough," can only be enrolled on the burgess roll of one ward. Provision is made for licensing dairies, and of securing the cleanliness of dairies, milk shops, and of. milk vessels, and for piohibiting r the sale of milk where the public health wouldV be likely to be endangered thereby. The present Municipal Corporation Act is subject to the amendments and additions now proposed. Under the Shops and Shop Assistants Bill, all premises, Willi the exception of coffee houses, restaurants, and eating houses will be closed at one p. m. Chemists are permitted to open from seven to nine on Saturday night, and to make up prescriptions during prohibited hoars in cases of emergency. Those employed in coffee houses, restaurants, aud eating houses are to have a half-holiday on some day during the week. The afternoon for closing may be changed by the local Borough Council from Saturday to a more convenient day, in which case closing must be general on the day so appointed. Women and persons under eighteen years of age are not be employed in any shop for a longer period than fifty-eight hoars, including meal times, in any one week. Penalties are provided for breaches of the Act. '• The Minister for Labour," says Mr Fisher, " can indulge in his smartisms, abut I'll wrestle with him till prorogation day," and then, added the hon. gentleman, with a Mephistophelean touch, v" I'll have him, yes, I'll have him, by and bye." Mr Fisher says that Sir P.. Stout came to Wellington directly after the general election in 1890 for the express purpose of forming the Bat lance Administration, and that this was done without the Libera! party be*'ug consulted. Sir Robert 'emphatically stated that the late Air Ballance formed the Ministry without hi 3 aid or presence. Mr Fisher announced in the House that he intended to contest the Wellington City seat at the coming elections. Messrs T. Morrison (Napier) and A. Cohen (Dunedin) have been appointed executive officers of the Press gallery. Mr Carroll announced ia the House the intention of the Government to int-oduce the Native Bills at the earliest possible opportunity. They will probably be brought down next week. According to Mr Fisher, the LytteUon Times office is the champion-sweated printing office of the colony. In that office, and those of the Wanganui Herald and Neic Zealand Times, the trumpet-tongued Liberal organs of the House, was where "ratting" and sweating predominated. It will 1)3 within the knowledge of my readers that some months ago one Claridge, employed as a shunter at Lyttelton, sustained injuries when working alongside one of the Union Company's steamers, .and in an action in the Supreme Court, recovered £1500 damages. Mr Justice Dennisfcon, however, upset the decision ou a technical law point, but the Appeal Court iound in favour of Claridge, reserving to the Company the right to take the case to the Privy Council. Mr Taylor has given notice to ask, ou Thursday next, whether the Government wiii utilise the services of the AgentGeneral in London by asking him to use His influence with the law lords of the Privy Council, or the Court cf Appeal in London, in getting that august . assembly to deal more expeditiously with the cases referred to them by the New Zealand Court of Appeal, aud more especially with the case of Claridge versus the Union Steamship Company. I understand that Mr Speaker will not permit the question to find a place, on the Order Paper, on the ground that the New Zealand Parliament has no right to attempt to dictate or even suggest to the Privy Councillors how they should conduct their business. Mr Rhodes wants more frequent sittings of the District Land Office at Timaru. Mr Allen wants the Colonial Treasurer to call in the worn-out silver coin. Mr Meredith evidently did not hear last year enough respecting the Lake Ellesmere forest scrip, and is now calling for more returns on the subject; meantime the Pre - mier has introduced a Bill to deal with one phase of it. The Government is being asked by Mr O'Conor to grant subsidies by way of encouraging private benevolence in the direction of establishing homes for the aged and needy.

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