PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 5, 5 July 1895, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

■> PROTECTING PRSSS CONFIDBMOIB. The Evidenoe' Fnrther Amendment Bill has been amended by the Joint Statutes Jfevision Committee by the addition of the following section : -" No newspaper proprietor, editor, or reporter shall be compelled todiiolobb in any proceeding the name of the writer of any article, letter, or paragraph appearing without suoh name in the literary columns of any newspaper which may be the property of such proprietor, or upon which suoh editor or .reporter may have been engaged at the time of the publication in Mich newspaper of snoh artiole, letter, or paragraph, provided that nothing herein contained shall be held to lessen the personal responsibility of such proprietor, editor, or reporter in tespect of such publication." JOTTINGS. T-r. Newman is asking the Government to have an ivn-ilyMs made of the hot springs at Ketatahi and To Mari, in tbi-< Provinoe, and that a track be made to them and a honee erected for invalids _ The Premier told the Temperance deputation yesterday that ho was £ local optionist, who had always hod the f-upportof the Temperance Party on the West Coast, where he was best known, and whom bir William Fox had specially thanked for his assistance in 1681. Mr. Firani wants to see a trial given the Vaile system at an early date, and Mr. Crowther is "baking the Government to eecure Mr. Vaile to inaugurate a soheme to reliove the strain pnt upon the Minister for Railways s Mr. WUHb is BBking for the introduction of legislation regulating medical ftes Mr. Massey wants it made clear that poreoßß other than chemists and drag sellers will not be prevented by the Phar. maoy Bill from selling sheep dips containing arsenic or other poison. ' Ihe Premier thinks the Temperanoe question is inseparable from general politics, and members must reconcile themselves to the foot. Mr. G. W. Enasell sayß the Press Association is "one of the groweat and most abominable class monopolies." Qisborne women are petitioning through the Hon. Mr. Carroll for equality of the divorce law and the raising of the age of consent The Premier told the Temperance depnta- " tion yesterday that the retrospective twist given to olauee 21 of the Alcoholic- Liquors Sale Control Act was due to ah amendment pointed ont by a member of the legal profession as neceseory. The Government brought down measures in a correct form, bnt the lawyers of the House often put them wrong. The Government proposes to set up the Horowhenua Committee as soon as the legal prcoaedingsnow pending are disposed of. Telegraphic communication is to bs established between Puhiatuaand F/ketabnna, and n-iw telephone stations are promised at Newman, Tntaekara and Hawera, Forty Mile Bush.- '