HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1909, Page 8

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House met at 2.30 p.m. The amendment made by the Legislative Council in tbe Wanganui Roman Catholic Lands Bill was agreed to. Notice was given by Air. G. Witty for a return showing the rates of wages and freight charges on the railways of Now Zealand and the Australian States. The Friendly Societies Bill was introduced by Governor's message, and read a first time. (Left sitting.) TO-DAY'S BUSINESS. The order paper indicates that the House will be engaged to-night in the third reading of various Bills, but ( it is understood that the Consolidated Estimates will be brought up for consideration. LEASEHOLD v. FREEHOLD. The leasehold section of the House has made up its mind that the Land Bill shall be resisted at every stage, and, as already indicated, .there are distinct signs of trouble ahead. The opponents of the Bill make no secret of the fact that they will proceed to any length possible under the Standing Orders to prevent the passage of the Bill, and in the belief 1 that their efforts will be temporarily successful they are making arrangements for an anti-Bill campaign to be carried dut during the recess. The campaign will be chiefly confined to the four centres, and the exponents of the leasehold policy will include Messrs. T. E. Ta-ylor, G. Laurenson, and G. W. Russell.

Copies of The Post are not now obtainable at tbe Thorndon (Manawatu) Eailway Station bookstall, or on the platform. The paper, however, may be procured outside - the station premises,. and also from our travelling agents on all the long-distance trains. A young married man,- named Thomas Frost, was killed on the Wakapuaka Eoad, Nelson, yesterday afternoon. He was thrown from a dray and run over, his back being broken. A Chinaman ambling across Upper Willig-etreet this morning with his baskets of fruifc and vegetables, stumbled and upset the contents of one on the middle of the road. The oranges, "all ripe and juicee," the apples, the bananas, and the plums, some of the first of the season, rolled across the tram lines. A car was coming up from town, and the Chinaman, after gathering up one or two survivors, stood by with truly Oriental resignation to see the cruel wheels complete the wreck of his fortunes. But the motorman was full of compassion for the unfortunate. To the surprise of many of the paesers-by, hurrying down to business, he pulled up the car short of the debris. "Pick 'em up," he said to the Chinaman. And the Chinaman, more astonished than anybody, and infinitely grateful to the considerate "god in the car," scooped the rest of his fallen treasures off the lines and departed rejoicing. Tho Wadestovni polling place for the tramway loan proposals next Wednesday is at Mr. Janes's shop, in the Main-road — not in Wade-street, as previously staled. Ratepayers in town can record their votes at the Town Hall.^ Husband aud wife can both vote, if one is a Wadestown xatepayer. The last day of Mr. Thacker's sale of boots and shoes is announced. •A garden fete will take place at "Awarua," Tinakori-road, from 3 to 6 p.m. tomorrow. The proceeds will be in aid of tho Freo Kindergarten Union. An excellent musical programme has been prupared. At the Town. Hall on Sunday evening the Wellington Professional Orchestra will give another concert. The orches tra this season will be assisted by several visiting professional musicians. Several new items will be included in the programme. Thirty Welling! on Navals are required to man the cutters on Saturday afternoon 'in readiness to go to Peloue to sail in tho races for the Zcalandia Cup. la consequence of these races there will be no rifle shooting for the conipany belt tomorrow, but class firing will be held for fehoso who have not complied with Ihc regulations so far. The London Shoe Company. 20, Mmi-ners-street, advertise tbe sale of boot* and , ehp.es jtf tendon prioei,