TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1904, Page 6

TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Tho Council met' at 2<30 p.m. Leave of absenco was granted to the Hon. T. Kelly for ten days. Tho adjotirnod debate on the question of Chinese labour on tho Rand was continued by tho Hon. F. Arkwright, who expressed the hope that the Attor-ncy-GcneruPs motion of protest would not be agreed to by the Cpuncil. (Left sitting.) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30 p.m. The Church Reserves (Canterbury) Bill was road a third time and passed. Mr. Wilford jvesentod a petition from tho'Wcllington Gas Company against the Wellington City Empowering (Gasworks) Bill being treated us a local Bill. The company contended that the Bill in a private Bill, and should be treated as such. The petition was referred to tho Joint Committee on Bills. Petitions wore presented against the employment of barmaids, und from natives in favour of Maoris being given equal rights with Europeans in regard to tho disposal of their lands. Mr. Wilfoj-d gavo notico to introduce tho Eaatbourno Rond District Bill. The Licensing Bill wns rend a second time without further debate. (Left sitting.)

A gting of Corporation workmen spent nil lust night repairing a water main on Lambton-quay near Paiuuna-strect corner which waa fractured yesterday by street excavators, and flooded tho thoroughfare for a time. TUo trnEiwiy rails along the oxprcan routo through Post Oftlco Square were cleaned out to-day jirepnratory to running a car through to tho Government Railway Station. It is probable that v car will bo urn over the new track tomorrow, nnd thai, tho Public Works Department will then proceed with its inspection of tho Post Office Square section. Tho use of tho complete express route -from R*«sell-torrace to the Government Railway Station at Thorndon is. therefore likely to begin within a few > dayn. Tho question of widening Mnnncxastreet has been referred by tho City Council to tho Street Widening Committee. Mr. Felix Tanner leaves Wellington on his vonturcsonio sea voyago in his Ark No. 3on Sunday afternoon. It is probable that some Little curiosity will bo created by Mr. Tanner's start upon his enterprise. , Thcro is more oxcitelnent in hockey circles in Wellington. A writ has been served upon Mr. Herbert Rawson to appear at tho Magistrate's Court on ti»e> 16th inst. to answer a charge of having refused to leave tlio hockey ground a I Day's Bay on tho 27th ttlt. when ordered to do so by tlv© officiate of the Hockey Association. The information has been laid by Messrs. Organ and W...E. Pearson, and tho case arises out- of the fracas which arose at tho opening of tho ladies' tournament.. A special feature of tho prosecution is to bo found in the position occupied by Mr. Rawson. Ho wns the president of the • association, Iho.officers of which have now served him with a writ, ami ho w fclre chart-man of directors of the Wellington Steam Ferry Company, which owns the Day's Bay estato, and from which the association has leased the grounds upon which Mr. llawson is aHeged to have trespassed. Mr. Rawson resigned tiie presidency of tho ussociation when the latter took up an attitude of opposition to the ladies' tournament. The annual meeting of the Karori Rifle Club was held last evening, Mr. F. J. Lissington, Captain, presiding. The report and balance-sheet, particulars of which have already been published, were adopted. It was decided to hold the shooting matches at Trenthnm in conscqucuce of tho Karori range having been sold. Tho reception of Mr. G. Hawthorn, a member of tho Bisley rifle team, was discussed, and a committee was appointed to make arrang«monta for entertaining him upon his arrival in Wellington. The following officers were appointed for the ensuing year: — Patron, Mr. R. C. Bulkley ; President, Mr. W. H. Tisdnll ; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. W. H. Field, M.H.R., A. GUlespic, E. T. Taylor, W. C. Gasquoine, G. Gapce, J. Uenry.% 11. Smith, J. Price, K. Plat!, Speight and Co., A. C. Pearce, J. F. Mills, J. M'Leavy, Zolitab and Co., W. A. Mowbray, A. C. Kernot, F. J. Buntign, and A. Hamilton ; Captain, Mr. F. J. Lissington (re-elected) ; Secretory, Mr. E. Randoll ; Treasurer, Mr. R. Ra'ndell ; Ilandicappcr, Mr. A. Guise ; Committee-, Messrs. G. Hallidoy, J. Burns, F. Richardson, G. Hawthorn, A. Guiso. Four new members wero elected. Others vrore nominated, but on account of the age limit boing by tho Now Zealand Defence Riflo Association's reguktions they could not be elected. Arrongemonts aro to be made to open tho season — probably on the first Saturday in Oc- 1 tober— by a match with tho Wellington Navals. Mosul*. Lcvion, Shallerass and 00. will soil at their roomn, nt 11 o'clock to-mor* row, a large quantity of ennmolware, without reserve, v

Mrs. Agnes Brierly, 25 years of age, died at a house in North-street yesterday afternoon. It appears that a woman named Honora Baesett called at deceased^ house about 10 o'clock in the morning, and found her ill in bed. Later in fcho day she left tho house, but returned again during the afternoon, and was present , when deceased expired .Charles Brierly, husband of deceased had not been living with his wife for a few weeks. He was out of town yesterday, but is expected to return to-day. It is surmised that death was due to natural causes. At an inquest held thia afternoon by Mr. Jas. Ashcroft, Coroner, the jury found that death was due to heart failure, caused by disease of the heart and other organs. At the Moturoa oil-boring works in Taranaki last week a considerable escape of gas occurred when tho drill loft the papa formation and ])enefcrated a sandstone stratum. Mud and w-afcer wore thrown to the height of 80ft, nnd bho newly - discovered "geyser" continued operations during tho whole of the afternoon. This is looked upon as a most favouraWo indication. The bore had now I reached a depth of 1120 ft. Mr. A. Linditay, boot importor, of Lamb-ton-fjuay *wd Cuba-streot. has rocoived a special ehipniani of gonfca boots from his home bnycr, whk>h will bo brought forward to-morrow at his shop. Tlio prices aro set out in our Wantod columns. Mr. Joh. E. Lindberg, "tho choap draper," Cuba-stroot, aunounceß, ox s.b. Pauanui, now goods and special prices for his salo to-morrow. Messrs. James Smith and Sons have just received a spooial purchases of silk blouses which aro advortkaecl in another colamn, and will bo shown at Tho Now Houso tomorrow.