POLITICAL POINTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9834, 6 August 1900, Page 8

POLITICAL POINTS.

If the increased tax from land is at all considerable, duties can be remitted on the necessaries of life. That seems to me to be better than extracting from the community by Customs duties thousands of pounds more than necessary to carry on the government of the country.—Mr Ell. Talk about dredging in some of the rivers in Otago ! The most severe form of dredging they had in New Zealand, and perhaps the most lucrative form to a food many, was the dredging of the pockets of the coal-consumers. —Mr Hogg. I have always held that it is rather a mistake to term them " domestic servants." I do not care for the word "servant" in any sense whatever; nor do I care for the word "master." I think we ought to adopt the system which I understand is in vogue in America, and that these persons should be called " house-assistants."— Mr .Barclay. After all, what is literary fame? I have heard it described by one individual as consisting of " having a great many people know you have written something which they have not read."—Mr VVilford. There are some unfortunate individuals to whom examinations are a very great trial, and these are very often not the worst men from a business point of view. —Hon. W. C. Walker. As one who has visited Gisborne several times, and who therefore knew something about the port and its requirements I can ■ say say that the sum o, £20,000 it was proposed to expend could not be better utilised in any port in New Zealand, as the present wharfage accommodation at Gishorne is totally inadequate to cope with the increased tramc of the port.—Mr Hall. f believe that Ra»sard and the Bernard work of the Parliament of New Zealand is the most voluminous aud the most extravagant, if I may use the term, of any Australasian colony.—Mr J. Hutchison. Every man recognises in a tree country he has a right to hold whatever views he pleases, and none of us could find fault with that.—Mr Carncross. I can scarcely imagine, Sir, that I was sitting in a Parliament composed of men who were supposed to voice the Liberal principles of this colony. Sir, I was almost asking myself, is my Liberalism a dream ? Is the Liberalism of those with whom I am associated a sham ? Does ib mean anything, or does it mean nothing ? —Mr Collins. The member for Christchurch (Mr Collins) seems to think that Seddonism and Liberalism are synonymous terms ; before he has spent another three years in Parliament he will know that the two terms are as far asunder as the poles of this earth. —Mr Pirani. The Auckland people are " ratty," absolutely " ratty." A few years ago any man opposed to the Stratford route would not dare to show his face on a public platform there. To-day Auckland merchants have abrogated every principle that should guide them in commerce, and are playing into the hands of selfish Wellington. They are throwing themselves holus-bolus into the mammon of unrighteousness situated in Cook Strait. —Mr La wry. The Minister of Railways is fond of vague and specious generalities, which he wraps np in a cloud of words he does not understand.—Mr Lewis. Ihe moment you allow political influences to be brought to bear upon appointments, so certainly will you have inferior appointments made.—Mr Ell. I am perfectly satisfied that there is no young !New Zealander who has the slightest sympathy for the Boers in the Transvaal. There may be some ot the " imported article" who have a sort of sympathy with them, to whom those lines of Barrington are applicable, namely :— True patriots they, for, be it understood, They left their country for their country's good. —Mr Wiiford. One could have admired the independence of spirit, one could have admired the p't iotic feeling —if you choose to call it so—it' Mr Grey had first resigned his position and with it his salary. But, to take the salary and abuse the employer who pays ! That is a new view ot independence of thought and patriotism. i —Mr Fisher, I

Those who know the Premier aa well as do members of this House recognise that when he is most ferocious, when he is most relentless and deterpiiniert to wreak his will upon whomsoever offends him, then he exhibits the *$ild'ness of the sucking dove. —Mr Pirani, V- ,| ' --v Iwarn this setting out upon a .WhicWiAfty' lead to Ihe destruction-ty! EaW** alism we hold tfb,idfeaiv.< House that the may mean, m-the r entire refus^rto-arry i to give ufcterftMee-" , convictions.— Grey discussibnV' £•*, , ? -" '» I feel that if a man it id a very extrflWdinaps , " the honorable Txiember does not pay Wilford.