POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE (BY TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, October 7,

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7487, 8 October 1892, Page 2

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE (BY TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, October 7,

ELECTORAL UILL, In the Council thin afternoon tha managers reported that the second con-« ference on the EluUunl Bill had proved ab'utive. Dr Pollen wished the Council to w.i'ive their amendments, bnt the other mombcrs thought they had offered to nuke sufficient concession?.

BILLS. The Westlmd and Nelson CoalBelda Act Amendment Bill and the Native Lmds V ilid ition of Tiden Bill hare p-tss^d their fiml sUges in tho Council. SEUVWfS l.EOISTRY. The GuVl'i noi'a nmendiuents in the Servants Li-»isfry Bill bring it into opera* tion iramuiliA t i' l y.

MR CAHUUTHEUS is t-o receive L500 a ye*r ar purchasing' inspector for the Rtilw^y Commissionera in L nulon. The eugHgotnent is for one yoriL 1 .

XATIVR LAND. The Government intend to purchase 'lie Almiw.tkii <•><.* block in the Seventy Mile B.i-h of 52,000 acios for . settlement (in- (vises, ,nid to h.ive the Wuk-tpero block thrown open for selection. VbTERIXARY SfRf.EOX. B'foro next si-sMon the Governmcnb h >pt i t>> l),iv«' procured a veterinary surgeon of wide oxperionce and practical knov\le»l»e in adduion to the present verenn,iry surgpon.

TH". POLICE. Steps ire to bo t-ik^n to give effect to tlit> suggestion as to a new cl*«sitic-ition nf i he ij-ilicu force advocited in Colonel Huim-'s report.

RATING. The Acting- Pi eimer would like to sea U>c\\ rviug p!<«c 'd on the Fame tusis as cho general i.itmg under the Liud and Income Tax.

LAND AND INCOME BILL. In the House to-night the Land and Income Assessment Bill came down by message from the Qovernor with, a leif amendments suggested by the law officer! of the Crown, which were agreed to. CONFERENCE. The Minister of Labor brought up the report of the conference on the Shop and and Shop Assistants Bill, and said, thftfc

tht House managers had accepted the Council's amendments. While dissatisfied with the Bill be had i ccepted it, and allowed it to go on the statute book .»s embodying the principle of granting i lulf-holid-iy to shop assistants. The rnport was agreed to on the voices.

ELECTORAL BILL. A long discussion took place on the presentation of the rcpoit of the free conference on the Etctor.il Bill. The Acting-Pit mipr, in repoi ting that all tittempts to etlect a compromise hid proved futile, threw the whole hl;mie of the loss of the Bill on the Council. He ridiculed grunting elector.il lights to women in the country as tending to set town against country, and said he could never consent to the inmates of old men's honits being treated as roguos and lunatics, and deprived of their civil rights. Mr S.iunders, a Government suppoiter, said members of the House were a'-ked to sink the most important B 11 ihat had ever been pa?sed in any of the colonial Legislatures on account of a difference of a few unimportant details. He movtd in the direction of another conference, with instructions to the managers appointed by the House to accept in the meantime the Council's modified proposals, which restrict electoral nghs lo women outside the four centre", boroughs, and road districts. Mr Hutchison, one of the) managers on behalf of the House at the confererce held this foreneon, seconded the amendment. In the discussion which follow td speakers from both tides of the House charged Mr Seddon with want of sincerity on the question of the enfranchisement of women. Finally, »t 1 15 a.m., the debate adjourned, on Mr Duncan's motion, and the Bill is thus shelved.

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. In the Supplementary Estimates appear I L300 aa compassionate allowance for Lady Atkinson and family, and L7500 for Mcterewhenua tailings compensation.