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New Zealand Mail, Issue 746, 18 June 1886, Page 16

Da Newman is going to ask the Government, If they will refrain from changing the names of places in the neighbourhood of Wellington ; and if they will retain the name “ Gordon" for the fort of which it ha 3 been the name for some time past 1

It was announced in the House on Wednesday that Sir Robert Stout, as Minister of Education, will deliver his Education Statement on Friday evening ; and that the Public Works Statement will be brought dowu by Mr Richardson next week.

The Railways Construction and Land Act Amendment Bill introduced by Mr Beetham empowers any company or persons who may have constructed a railway under the Act (1) to run locomotives and (2) to take land for accommodation woiks. It further requires such company or person to fence the railway and other works, and to maintain the fences.

Mr Vincent Pyke i 3 to ask the Government to-day whether they will favourably entertain an offer or . proposal t'J) construct the remaining portion.of the Otago Central Railway from Tareri Lake to Lake Hawea by a company on terms similar to those proposed to be conceded to the Midland Company.

In Mr Larnach’s Coal Mines Bill the Goldfields Committee have made the following alteration : The provisions respecting the employment of women and children have been struck out ; a new subsection has been added, requiring vertical shafts to be fitted to all underground furnaces, and empowering miners to appoint two persons to inspect the mine in which they are employed, every facility for such inspection being required to be afforded by the owners. The cost of collecting Customs duties in New Zealand for the past year was lowest at Wellington, LI 18s 8A per cent., next lowest at Patea, L2 0s 4d per cent., Auckland coming next with L2 2s Id. -The highest was LB9 5s 3d per cent, at Hokianga. The average for the whole Colony was L2 10s. The Premier announced in the House on Wednesdaythat on Tuesday next he would make a statement as to the intentions of the Government respecting the readjustment of representation and the amalgamation of city electorates.