POLITICAL NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1904, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

BOXEKS AND RACEHORSES. During yesterday's discussion in the Legislative Council on the ethics of boxing, tho Hon. J. Rigg expressed disagreement with the people who would reduce boxing to the love) of a "garden party" sport. To give point to his remarks, ho drew « comparison between Iho racchorso und tho box«r. "People will go to a horse-race," Ue said, "and &cc a horae flogged and c.purred unmercifully until its flanks arc covered with blood ; and yet they will chip their hands, because they hnvo won ha'.f-a-crown. And yet they hold up their hands and cry 'Brutal!' if they sco an athlete in the pink of condition receive in a boxing contest a blow that c&usch his nose to bleed." A BTGAMY BILL. One of tho most remarkable Bills circulated this session iH Mr. Field's Marriago Restrictions Removal Bill, which cnuscd a. mild sensation yesterday. Tho Bill is ono of the shortest on record, and yet it contains more bigumyto the square inch than any other Bill ever invented. In plain uncompromising languogo it proposes that "a mnn 'may marry his mother's brother's wife, and a woman may marry her mother's sister's husband." JOTTINGS. A petition w«s presented to Parliament yesterday on beluilf of Mr. 'Gerhard 0. Mueller, of Auckland, formerly AKsiatant-Survoyor-Genoral and Commissioner of Crown Lands for blie Auckland district. Tho petitioner states that he has lately been retired by reason of uge, after 38 years* service, and he asks Parliament to grant him tho pension to which ho believes himself entitled. Tho Government of tho colony is v commercial concern, nnd tho Premier ia managing director. — Mr. Herd man. During the year ended 31st March last the revenue ut Port Robinson for inwards goods totalled £813 12s Bd, and for outward goods £237 12s Bd, making a total of £1051 5s 4d. Wool to the quantity of 2926 bales was exported. The expendituro wiw £1008 13s Bd. Robert Barclay, formerly of Newtown but now of Mnsterton, one of tho victims of the Newtown licensing muddle, is pc titioning Parliament for compensation for pecuniary loss totalling £1036 8s 9d, tho chief items being £720 for 36 weeks' loss of net profits, and £252 for 36 weeks' rental.

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