POLITICAL NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12571, 5 August 1901, Page 6

POLITICAL NOTES.

[From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, August 3. THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY. t There is rivalry between. two Canterbury members on a subject of growing importance. Mr Tairner is to ask, on Tuesday, if ti.e Government will consider the propriety of subsidising the revenues of th» New Zealand Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Women and Children, and Mr Collins is to ask, on Wednesday, whether the Government, will consider the advisability of granting Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals subsidies of, say, £ for , £, thus assisting them in their laudable and necessary work. ''."•■'■.' CTVLL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. The folio-vying'notice of motion for Tuesday, by Mir Guinness, is interesting':—■ Whether the. Minister of Education is aware that, in the Junior Civil Service examination, ' which is competitive, and upon the result of which the, future.,of .so' many candidates, depend, many of the examiners mark the work of their own pupils, and that the papers containing the candidates' answers, when valued,.are retained by the examiners, to be afterwards given out to their pupils as scribbling paper, to the great annoyance and even injury of those candidates who have been examined? THE SHOPS AND OFFICES'BILL. The Laboair Bills C&nwnittee of the Legislative Council has struck out from the Shops and Offices Bill the clause, relating to employees of banking and mercantile institutions, , which caused a storm of protests from*all .parts-of the colony.