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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 240, 11 July 1928, Page 14

There is no reason that we have ever heard of why all the Bills should not be in the public’s hands within a fortnight after the session begins. The Government and the Departments have had seven or eight months for thought and preparation, and so have the private members. Yet the contents of very few of the Bills to be dealt with will be made available to the public for six or eight weeks to -come, and unless there is a complete change in procedure, the last two or three weeks of the session will find Parliament struggling, as usual, with a mass of Bills which members will not have the time or the inclination to study and which the public will not have had an opportunity of discussing.—Christchurch “Press.”. During the five months’ siege of Paris in 1870-1871, three millions of letters were sent out of the city by balloon. » Before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, yesterday, Alexander McInness Macßae, a seaman, was fined 10s., in default, 48 hours’ imprisonment, for a second offence of drunkenness.