Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue IV, 3 December 1909, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Tub Premier told thi> House vii W«l---li esdav that the State colliery at l onvb .should help to makeup the looses? Kki,.i,ing, .we regret. to say, >« £> |f „.,..,;„ Blt the mercy ol Mr *- J- UuU £ mrd during tho conuu- .sun.n.er At i; ,,v rule, that .K tho oxcu.se the Com - cifotfered last night lor. not proceedin- s ,t onco with the saloguardmg ol the witer singly for the summer M>a- ;„„ ■• We want to see Mr Riddilord about if will I"' « 1>" ( »' sort *' , ( °- fence it : anything goes wrong with tlie service. TllK m ,.,nbor tor Oroua. like a poet, of the pa.<t, has awakened to find him.cli l-inum*. Ho h»us been holding the f-ito ol the Government's new land loaUlalion in the hollow ol his hand, and the secret has leaked out. Mr (iiithrie \v:i.s absent from one meeting of the Lands Committee ol the Hous." — al-tondin.r a. I'unoral. it was naid— •md as he held tho bahince oi power lor the freehold.-™ <>" »h«- CommiHM'. tlio lcMNoholderis look a mean advantage of his absence, and nt ruck out i)i'"tbe Hill every reference to the freehold. The earth and tho Government trembled until the member tor Oroin returned— although tho Premier and Leader of the Opposition have thought it worth while to make istateinont's to the ellect that neither of them had sent out either w patrol ot Hoy Scouts or a finglo telegram .urgently recalling Mr Gut line. The fact That they had occasion to make this denial rather suggests the excitement that preceded tho subsequent meeting of the Committee, when the vote oi' .Mr (hit brie and the casting vote of the Chairman (the Hon. T. Y. DunI can) restored the fieebold possibilities to the IV U. The other mcmber.s of i this important Committee aro Sir Jo- ; M'ph Ward and Messrs Anderson. Ell, i Forbes, Hogg, L:ing, Lawry, and Witty. It will l»e .seen in the report 1 of yesterday's proceedings in Parlia- | incut, published on page 4. that Mr i T. I'l. Taylor, the loader of tho leasei holder;, -made (juiro a dramatic onslaught on the Committee's report. ,md it was he who dragged Mr Guthrie into the lull glare of the limelight ; <>t publicity.