PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.
[3Y TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Tuesday. THE MAORI BILLS. \li attempts to alter the Maori Prisoners Trial and C..unseated Lands Inquiry Bills in committee last night failed. The Maori members tried very hard to get one of the Cmi-nUsic.nera to hi a of tho native race, but while Ministers professed to favour the i!?o. they would not lot a pro vi«o to that effect bo inserted in the bill. \"oood deal of talk took place about the chuse allowing members of the House to be on the commission an 1 to be paid. \ I'vke st-vnMy objected, whereupon 'Hjor Tc Whe,ro f ug- s te I that, if Mr Pvke lik-a to work for notlimy, he should i ~nnii>t."l Rumour l.as it that Colonel Trimble Mr. Fulton, an 1 Mr. Waketield ;\ r : t it w r t°ko th'm Y,«r months to in- ] uire into all the unfulliUed planuses about the West Coast c:inti=ca-ion. » whole >le slaughter of '-the innocents, a wholc : .»ic si. „ is to take ami if u \?- n " t .. r uumb er of pace on rii«."<la>, a »-|" !,"■" . innocents will have '.ob; sac.meed. MB. SLTT.-)N l"^ 0NI ;' l - V, ;- ; V\. bv X^r y Sutt"n i-m the charts preferred on Uavey's petition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5637, 10 December 1879, Page 5
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