WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9511, 5 September 1891, Page 6

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

f frsoM ora own corbbbeondbnt.l t WELLINGTON, Sept. 4. v .' WOMAN „ SraJTBAGB. Jfc is the universal opinion that the Woman's Suffrage Bill will be thrown out by the Upper House, and that Sir John HaTTvirtually sealed its doom by refusing the Premier’s sensible offer of postponement. Ifc is not thought that Mr Camcross’ amendment alone would have decoyed ite prospects but the.two causes will bo _ThO JiaoctoralEUl w |ji v-/ --jittered to-mghfc again m Com- - rnictee/, DE POLLEN’S PETITION. ■ The report of the Public Accounts Committee la favourable to Dr Pollen’s pension, ileasrs E. Thompson, J. Kelly, and Tanner made the strongest objection ; the grat-natesd saying he hoped the Government "(to'whom it was referred) would treat it with the contempt it deserved. Mr. Kelly moved to refer it back to the Cp'ihbiittee. Mr Hogg expressed deep indignation,, and called' the Commit-tee's-conduct monstrous and scandalous. He ytkn called upon to withdraw the words, andlcUd so, but said he hoped the people of the. Colony would show their feelings towards" those who voted for such monstrous pampering'’Of Colonial pensioners. Mr Fish asked whether it was a legal right or a compassionate allowance. The Premier eaitl he believed it was useless to refer it back to the Committee, and suggested that Mr Kelly should withdraw his motion and leave--.the,-matter in the hands of the ;Sanpders read' the record '6i Dr Pollen’s, receipts from the Government, and held that he had no Olaxgi/- -The Bouse decided on the voices to refbi'the A handsome mural tablet to the memory of ’Mr-Eichard Turnbull,, about to be put np-.itfSfc Mary’s Church, Timaru, is now on viefij'in. the. lobby ofthei House. It has just-been received from London.' petition; reports. . The Committee reported on the petition „ of It?. Gcodlefc, of Dunedin, who prayed compensation for loss of office as Inspector of "''Works, that, not being in the Civil Service, be had no claim. On that of Jobs C. Hunter, asking compensation for loacf- of, office on the railways, the Committee endorsed the decision of the Committee of IS6S, that petitioner bad been treated, with sufficient liberality. On the petition of, ChristianaCalcott, of Wellington, who represented that her son, now deceased, who had supported her and his two” sisters; had served the Government for nineteen years, and that bad he left a

widow she would have received .£550 allowI' arm®, the Committee recommended that I Be granted the allowance as ' if the had beah'.the widow of the deceased. -- ■ . txawzkms ketoens. -The return Ifdd oh .the table to-day of aocSiaatad Immigration firm the commencement of the scheme to J une 30,1891, shows that, in Canterbury, there were '■ nominated 19.035 and arrived 8528. The figures for Otago are 24,132 and 9056. Prom May 1, 1890, to June 30, 1891, there were nominated 168 persons, whose passage money’aggregated £2220. The nominators in the Colony paid £1485, and £lO was paid by the emigrants in England.

"Arab” and "Shah” brand Teas, from - - all grocers and storekeepers. April: Tkk«» ! Apple Trees!—Apple and / other Emit Trees in great variety, two to four years old, T. Abbott, Exeter Nurseries, Papas ui road, Christchurch. 2389 Exports in the tea tirade described a consignment recently received in London from , the Qalleooddq estate in Ceylon as the Saest tea ever grown. At auction it brought eighty-seven shillings a pound, that price being paid by wholesale houses, i , Tbo.paat year in Cyprus has resulted in the largest harvest and the largest revenue of any year” ein.ee the British occupation. The aid to bo asked from Parliament to ' assist the island in paying the Turkish -tribute has consequently fallen to a trifling