NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1746, 5 October 1887, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

+ Parliament will be opened by commission to-morrow. The special train for Wellington arrived in Hawera about 11 o'clock. It carried 22 members of the Upper and Lower Heuees of Parliament. It is stated that the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, of London, have been asked if it can guarantee to build a passenger Bteamer to go 25 knots per hour (equal to 30 wiles), and that it has given an affirmative reply. The Churton College, near Wanganui, about which much has been heard recently, is a home for Maori girls who are educated there. It was pointed out in the Synod that unless it were kept open, tbe girls would have to go back to the pah and to the pernicious habits of the pah. On Saturday evening, Mr. R. Bargrove, of the Pioneer Bicycle Club, Christchurch, finished a 24 hours' ride, doing 210^ miles, and beating the record by 13 miles. The course was between Leestoo and Christchurch. Bargrove now holds all the Cyclists' Alliance records, viz., 50 miles in 3 hours 35 minutes ; 100 miles, 11 hours 9 minutes ; and 24 hours, 210J miles. The Dunedin Star, in an article on tbe political situation, says : — Pledges, promises, and Bentiments, given and promulgated from the hustings are not, as a rule, worth much, but, nevertheless, it may not be without interest to note the declared •pinions of the elected members in regard to same of tbe more important questions of the day. In the first place, there has been a general concensus — we may almost say universal — in favor of such material retrenchment as will avoid, if it be possible, the necessity for additional taxation. In respect ot further borrowing, a very large majority have expressed objections to increasing our indebtedness, except to the extent required for the completion of main lines ot railway in process of construction. We are not inclined to ascribe very much importance to these objections, which, from experience, we think will be found somewhat elastic when the test of a Railway Bill with an inviting schedule is applied. The Dunedin Evening Star says : — The new Parliament has in many directions heavy work cut out, but in noao more so than in regard to setting right the evil policy which has misdirected native affairs, and the maladministration which has obstructed the investment of capital in settling the country. There is only one effectual way of reforming the Native Department, and that is sweeping it away altogether. The period of its usefulness is past ; it is simply an obstruction and an expense. Hoani Taipua, who has just been re-elected for the Weßtern Maori electoral district, declared in his place in the House last session that he did not think there should be any longer " two laws for the Natives and the Europeans," but that they should " live under one law " ; and this is what Parliament should endeavor to effect. Why, for instance, should not native lauds be brought under the operation of the land laws of the Colony, with due safeguards aB to rights of original ownership, instead of being dealt with by special legislation in the teeth of strongly-expressed Maori opinion.

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