POLITICAL NOTES. (From our Contemporaries.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8086, 26 September 1894, Page 4

POLITICAL NOTES. (From our Contemporaries.)

Sir Kobert Stout io moving for a retam of extra dorks employed by ths Uovernraonh M % M, Smith flays the rail way bridges Io tho colony Bhould be boilt of iroo, Members of tho House asked What iron % Mr Smi h replied Tur*tiakl Iron, and very good Iron It was loo, Mr Wl Pore sayu wo hoar « a™*" de*l aboat poor peoplo from members— because, he odded In explanation, poor toeoplo have votep, Me Allen wants binder twino plaoe • Da the f«oo Met, Mr Baiok is urging that a pamphlet) en footnrob bo leaned by the Stoo'i Pepartment. .. Mr Karpflhftw esyfl tho Governraeut moneartn are a plunging policy, seeking papport fictst in one part of the country $nd 'jhon in anothor. Mr -M'Laohlan la asking that tho Government lsauo maps for me iuohools, aleo an agricultural textbook. Mr Tannor want* Government to erlnt the balauoe-ahcots of tho Colonial Bink and Sink of New Zealand from 1888 to 1893. Mr Wi Poro haa ft poor opinion o bank?. Ho 8»y0 wheaevora bank gets |d tr ublo it at onco aorowo its etwtomorB, He Buffered soverely wit'i «he B*nk of Now Zealand, <♦ Wild and oxperlmontal legislation" {0 bovr Mr O'Kogan describee th Obeap Money Bill find other Polio B Up. Mr Lurnaoh wiohoB the Government to^oonelder the equity and jaatico " of applying tho Graduated Tax to ail proper tea of a higher value than £210,000. Mr M redith Bay?, <( Hoavon defend New Z^fl'aod " from ooropanleB whioh mako 20 per cent dividend out of the 11 bone, blood, and heart'a blood " o» tho people. Mr Wi Pero eaya Iho great desire 0' the Houoe ia to make the law bt complicated that the nativea will not understand it, and have to part with their land, "Nearly ovory member who has spoken to-night haB condemned this Bill,'' said Mr Thompson on the oboap money propoaals, wheroupon the Pren snlor Intpgeoted, "Bat they are going fco vote iot it all ibe Bamo," Whereat the HoiJBO UnghccL Mr Mills wants to Bed tbo amount votod for primary eehool ooholarship' Irjcroasod, nod all eoholarebipB opened to tho pnpilft of dtomentary eohoole, jnenpocblvo of proviooial boundaries. Mr O'Bogan aaya that io the Obeap Money Sobomo tho . Government pro|)O800 to lend monoy on nnearnod in crorooat, wh'oh in tho Taxation 00 Unimproved Values Bill it proposes to tax avray. Hore h n u good thing }> of the Minietsr for 'Kduoation— too good to be lost. A member wai speaking of tho early colonists of Aufit-alaBia and their Buitabillty, Qaoth Mr Roevoa to a friend : " The early eottlora of AustraiR8is ought to havo boon oralnently •ultablo,a& tboy were Belrotod by sorao of the boet jud^on in England 1" When Mr Ward waa at tho Post* 1 Oonferenoo, In Aus'rslia be mado proposal ( ho Premier nave) far reoiprooiby but they were coldly rooeived, Neither osuld tbo colony's delegate to the Canadian Conference get any farther aatiifaotlon, <f Tho hoo, gentleman knovra that fchla wag juot in the .middle of' an election, and the idea that I should at such a time mmko a promise amueocl mo," — Tbo Preraiec on an alleged, promise mado t) Warkworth eettleis during 'the Wa^eoaata - dhotion, of whioh Mr Mmnoy reminded him,