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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 104, 29 October 1909, Page 6

, LOCAL AND GENERAL The subject of wireless telegraphy is referred to in one brief but important claxise in the Shipping and Seamen Act Amendment Bill introduced by the Minister of Marine in the House of Representatives. The clause provides that the Governor may make regulations requiring ships registered in New Zealand and carrying passengers to be provided with, wireless telegraphy apparatus, and to prescribe fines, not exceeding £50, for breaches of the regulation by the master j or owner. The advisability of erecting a wireless telegraph station at Denniston, ! dape Foulwind, or other suitable place near the port of Westport has. been suggested to fee Government by Mr. Colvin (Buller). Wellington City will have an additional member on the Harbour Board, under the proposed new constitution, if the wish of the present board is respected by Parliament. With a view to accomplish that object, the board's chairman, Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., has been commissioned to endeavour to get the personnel of the board increased to fourteen under the new Act. Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., in replying to a welcome given to him in the Trades and Labour Council to-day, congratulated the conference on its decision that the time had arrived for direct representation of Labour in the House of Representatives. The House, he said, was very largely an institution of class. He declared his intention to oppose the Land Settlement Finance Bill. He contended it was just as sound a policy to find the whole of the cash for establishing State institutions, and managing them as such, as to pledge the credit of the State for the purpose of putting a certain^ number of private individuals in possession of land. He advocated a, Labour paper really worthy of the people connected with Labour and industries. That was one of the conditions of Labour progress. If an independent Labour party were established he wa« sure the Australian pledge exacted by the Labour party in Australia was the only method by which the party could be held together. This was exactly what the Government and Opposition parties did, holding by caucus decisions. Some forty members ol Parliament will leavo by the Government steamer Tutanekai at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning for Picton, to enable them to attend the Marlborough Jubilee celebrations at Blenheim. They will return on Monday night. In to-morrow's Post will appear an interesting article by Mr J. M'Combs, entitled "Methods oi Election," in which is clearly set forth the defects of the second ballot, and various methods of preferential voting designed, but failing in actual practice, to secure an absolute majority of votes. An account is given of the sole method which secured this result in _a single electorate, and also of the scientific system of proportional representation where a plurality of members is returned. "Mistake" has sent 10s worth of penny stamps to the Collector of Customs as "conscience money." A claim for £5 5s for professional services was made before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., -yesterday, by R. S. Rounthwaite, engineer, against R. P>. Williams, solicitor. Claimant was nonsuited. Mr. Yon Haast was for plaintiff, and Mr. Neave for defendant. A splendid up-to-date range of cloth . befit workmanship, correct style, be; i finish. This is worth considering, when these essentials go in our suit to measure at 635. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd. — Advt.