PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

• TWO JOSIPHB. Mr. T. Mackenzie had the Houbo in roars on Thursday night with a humorous analogy between "two illnstriona Josephs" who went to foreign lands, and by a singular coincidence wore both "in the grain trade." Both Josephs saw visions and dreamt dreams . The modern Joseph when he wont to London saw visions of great power and affluence, and dreamt that there were vast surpluses in his treasury and vast suma of " unpledged " securities. In consequence of his dreams he got into tronble, and had on his returnto assume a " coat of many colours." And, like the ancient Joseph, he got into a pit. The Premier here asked, What abont his brethren ? Mr. Mackenzie thanked the Premier for the interruption. It was his brethren pnt him into the pit. If the modern Joseph had been left alone he might have struggled out, bat the efforts of his Ministerial brethren to help him oat only pushed him farther in. And his polifcioal brethren were quite prepared, as the brethren of Joseph of old were qnite prepared, to sell himself, and that for even less than 20 pieces of silver. Both the Josephs were presented to royalty. If we were told aright, our Joseph dined with Lord this, and lunohed with Earl that, and was annoyed at the information they had acquired without him. And we were told they were mutually struck with eaoh other's appearance. But these things didn't turn the modern Joseph's hood till lovely woman came on the sceno. Then, as a proaa correspondent wrote, a fair young oreature at the meeting said that " the goodness and God-like beauty of this excellent land was reflected in the lovely person of Mr. Ward;" and in her exile from New Zealand she "thanked him for the dulcet tone and lovely musical voice what had reconciled her to exile in a foreign land." The correspondent added that she might quote more, bat spared the blushes of the Treasurer. Mr. Mackenzie didn't have it all his own way, »s Mr. Carroll took up the parable immediately after, and reminded the House that the anoient Joseph was not a dreamer, but an interpreter of- dreams. He was a man of brains, and a good Colonial Treasurer was that Joseph. When the oountry was depreesed they wanted a man skilled in fia»noa to let daylight into the darkness of Egypt, and Joseph was that man. (Mr. Mackenzie had said that the Treasurer, who boasted of letting daylight into his critics, had driven daylight from the House.) Look at the preparations Joseph made for the bad times, and the granaries ho set np for tho people. Altogether, Mr, Carroll thought it was a very happy simile.. AN OPPOSITION MINISTRY. Here is the Hon. J. M'Kenzie's idea of the next Ministry : — Premier, Attorney-General, and Minister for Education, Sir JR. Stoat ; Colonial Secretory and Minister for Defence, Captain Russell ; Treasurer, Mr. G. Hutchison ; Minister for Labour, Pablio Works, and Railways, Air. Earnshaw ; Lands, Mr. Massey ; Dr. Newman to be transferred to. the Upper House. COMMON BSNSE. Mr. 6, W. Russell said yesterday after, noon that ho did not moan to follow the prao> tico of devoting the first part of bis speech to criticising the speech of his immediate predecessor. Ministers evidently considered a proper state of things was for one portion of the House to see nothing but white in Ministerial statements, and that the object of the other side should be to Bee everything black. Ho would instead address himself to the Statement, LICENSING LEGISLATION, Mr. Bcddp is preparing a numbor of amendments "to the Alooholio Liquors Sale Control Bill. He proposes that only one bar be allowed in any licensed house; that any traveller entering or being found on any licensed premises within a distance of five miles of the licensed premises he may have called at for refreshments, shall be liable to £2 fine unless he oin prove he has business there or is a lodger. Any person not an inmate, servant, or lodger found on licensed premises daring olosed hours ehallbe fined ',£2 j anyone giving a false name when so found shall be fined £5 ; any person endeavouring to secure liquor by alse pretenoea to be fifed £5. Mr. W. iutohiaon proposes amendments prohibiting ho lioonsing of any hotel containing a bil-. Hard table. He proposes that no woman other than the lioensee shall be allowed to sell liquor in the bar ; no liquor is to bo. supplied to any woman or to any person under 16 j all bars are to be closed on the, weekly half-holiday. - ■ jottings. The Premier, Colonial' Treasurer, and. Muuster for Lands left the House auring the very free oritioism by Mr. G. W. Enesell yesterday. Mr. Morrison thinks the co-operative system vicious. H. Yon Blaamberg, of Palmerston North, has, in tho opinion of the Petitions Com. mittee, no olaim against the oolony, and has not exhausted hi* legal remedies against the Wanganui Education Board. James Grove and 10 other Wellingtonians are petitioning the House in .reference to police interference with Mrs. Yon Meyern. Tho Petitions Committee refers to Government for consideration the request of the North AuokUrid Hospital and ..Charitable Aid, Board and other* that charitable aid >c made a charge, on the Consolidated Revenue, or, failing this, that each County Council be eonititated a Board to administer oharltable aid iwitMffits'oVii .boundaries. . Mr. Earnshaw wants to know what authority there in for making a Tariff Treaty with Canada and exolnding Great Britain. / Mr. Wi Pere it asking 'the Government to irbvido a seaside block for the' remnants of ;he Tuhourangi— deoimated and rendered homeless by the Tarairer* eruption, and now wandering over the gumfieldV without fixed abode. ,-;- Mr. Hogg is urging that effeot be given to

the recommendation of tho Commissioner that provision be made for compensation i the surviving members of the Wellingtoi Colonial Defence Force. The petition of Piripi Te Maaritnd otber praying that the South Wairarapa Rive Board be restrained from letting out thi waters of the lake, baa been referred fron the Publio Petitions to the Native Affairi Committee. The Petitions Committee reiterates it: ODiuion that Wm. J. Moore, the dispensed with Defence stores man, should ba grantee proper compensation, but the A to Z Com mittoe considers Wm. Hepburn has been paid full compensation. The Petitions Committee does not con. aider that Gerald FitzGerald has any olaim on the colony beyond the offered him towards expenses of removal while a Public Works engineer. The General Manager of Railways will allow railway employes to consider the Penaion and Superannuation Fund Soheme before submitting the proposals to the Legislature.