POLITICAL POINTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9821, 21 July 1900, Page 8

POLITICAL POINTS.

If there is one vice which the evidence upon all hands shows to be on the increase it is that of gambling, and gambling among! sjyoung persons. From the police records and other sources of knowledge there can be obtained full evidence of this. —Hon. Colonel Pitt.

Parental neglect is, I believe, at the bottom of a great deal of what may result in immorality, and helps to produce the most dangerous class of criminal we have—because we can hardly be said to possess a really criminal chiss in this country. —Hon. W. 0. Walker.

As long as I have the honor of being in this House, if the name of any honorable member here is brought up in such a way aa to cause a reflection to bs casS upon him, he shall have my vote to prevent it if possible.—Mr A. L. D. Eraser.

I think it is well that one should go into the question of what is privilege a little more closely than has been done. I see the honorable member for Napier has gone out, otherwise it might have been a good thing for an impulsive young member like himself to listen to arguments in connection with a breach of the privileges of this House. — Captain Russell.

I consider it is contempt of Court to assault a Judge. Ws have an instance iin this city where a man pablicly I thrashed a Magistrate, Well, it is quite !right 6hat that should be considered.to be contempt of Court. —Mr Wilfordi. . Sir, I do maintain that the practice, ■which ro increasing ia this House,, of ;allowing: meritbers to interpolate targe quantities of argument which they had never uttered, and replying by interpolated passages to arguments put forjiward but never answered in this Horace, and which would have been answered it ijspoken by an honorable member in this (House instead of being interpolated in \-.Bomard t is destroying ilae reliability of uHansard altogether.—Captain Russell, I take very good eire to keep as far laway as I possibly can from Law Courts, 'and I do not go into the Court to repudiate debts justly owing for gosdasupplied. I think any man who uses the machinery of the Courts for his own pur poses,, and then comes to the House and endeavors/o alter the law to suit his own case,, can hardly be called a legislator who is legislating in the interests of the people. —Mr Pirani. ! He could remember a country s*hool in Hawke's Bay —it was the Waipawa school he referred to—and it was a notable fact that the boys and girls j belonging to that school could be picked ! out at any time from the boys and girls attending any other school. They had a smart appearance always, and were well Yet up children And why? The head master of that school was an enthusiast in military woik. —Mr Seddon on Compulsory Drill Bill.

. If there is any juvenile depravity in this colony, I contend there is Coo much ; aud if we can by any nutans in our iiofftj ieduce the amount that exists, we will raise ourselves higher in the estirna'ion of other countries as a moral nation. That is the true point.—Hon. Mr Kigg.