POLITICAL NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11051, 1 September 1896, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

[From Oue Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, August 31. ORDER OP BUSINESS. The first order of the day for to-morrow is the consideration of the report from the committee of the whole on the Loan Bill. Supply is No. 11, but in all probability it will be made the second item, and the House, after disposing of the Loan Bill, will probably have an all-night sitting on the Estimates. Should consideration of the Loan Bill not he brought on till after questions have been answered, the debate on the third reading of the Bill may last till midnight. PHOTOGRAPHIC COPYRIGHT. An important omission has been made in Mr G. Hutchison’s Bill dealing with, the protecting of photographs. No provision is made whereby it will be unlawful for a photographer employed by any person to take a photograph for him tocopyright such photograph and prevent his employer making copies. To supply this omission, the Hon G. Jones, who has charge of the Bill in the Council, intends adding a new clause on the lines indicated. NATIVE MATTERS. According to the Premier’s remarks to ft deputation of Natives which waited on him on Saturday, when the Public Trustee first took office the rents from Native lands only amounted to .£6OOO, and now they amount to .£20,000. Alluding to the decrease in the Maori population, the Premier said that the time had come when the Government should train medical men of the Native race. MISCELLANEOUS. The Minister of Railways is being asked by Mr M’Lachlan to state his reasons for refusing the request of the Ashhcprton Borough Council respecting the planting of railway reserve in Ashburton. The erection of a suitable post office at Kaiapoi is being asked for by Mr Buddo.