PARLIAMENTARY NOTES

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9308, 18 September 1893, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES

ht TELEGRAPH— SPECIASORRKSTONDENT. ] Welljgton, Sunday. ALLEGED BREACJ OF PAIRS.

t fjnd thab in mv accoib of the alleged breach of pairs in the Bctoral Bill in the Council, I stated thab.be all-important TO was given upon tl important interpretation clause. As a utter fact the vote alleged to have been itproperly exercised was"upon the electoral ighb amendment, which was a new claus proposed by Mr. McLean. Apart, howeer, from this inaccuracy I am assured tab the pair was in no sense broken, and f place reliance on the word of the gentlecin who assures me he has been unjustly clrged with a violation of his obligations. The pair he made for a specific purpose 'as without doubt ob.-erved.and the misuoersfcanding seems to have arisen through a'ifferenco of opinion 35 to the terms of tb pair, an addition being made, -as my iformnnfc alleges, in the details without hifknowledge.

JOTTNGS.

Mr. Thomas Thomson is better, and hopes to be in his plac to-morrow. The near approach c the end is evidenced by the fact thab both louses sib for the first time to-morrow afternon. Colonel Fox's repot has been promised for Tuesday night. Major Hamlin has forced a promise thabf possible ib shall be taken at half-past sevn.

Mr. Valentine asks the Premier whether seeing that new towi districts cannot at present be created, b is willing to pass an act to enable some fom of local Government !0 be given to rural ontres in counties. The Hon. G. F. Richardson thinks it mmM not cast to- much work on the shoulders of tho Prmier if he were to add t,Se portfolio of Co!cii;U Treasurer and one or two others to tb. list, if he carried on {he work no more carefully than he did that of the departnents at present under ais care.