TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1894, Page 3

TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Mr. Dnthio gavo notice to ask whether : the attention of Government has been called ' to tho nnmber of people leaving the colony j for Australia, many of them with capital, and whether Ministers intend talcing any ' stops to induco those people to remain f Mr. Roderick M'honzie gave notice of a ; question asking whether tho Government is aware that 220 miners on the West Coast ! had been dismissed from employment within tho last fortnight, and that 400 people are on the verge of starvation P Tho Premier informed the hon. gentleman that it was not necessary to bur- i den the Order Paper with his question. Tho position had beoomo so sorious that Government had taken the only alternative that was in its power. Tho coal companies had not acted upon the report of the Railway Committeo, and the men boing out of employment and starving, Government had given instructions to immediately determine the leases of the whole of the minos of the two companies — Cardiff Coal Company and Mokihinui. In answor to tho Hon. Mr. Mitcholson, tho Promior said it was impossible, until tho Financial Policy Bills of tho Government were passed, to say whon the Public Works Statement would bo brought down, and when the Bill rotating to the Midland Railway Contract would be laid boforo tho House. He hoped, howevor, tho latter would be down next weok. In answor to Mr. Collins, tho Minister for Education said that Ministers wero prepared to deal with the question of the influx of Chinese at an early date. Iho Department of Agrioulturo (tho Hon. Mr. M'Konzio stated) is receiving small quantities of tho seod of Biigar beet for distribution to farmers I Loft sitting. J