POLITICAL POINTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3258, 15 October 1897, Page 3

POLITICAL POINTS.

\ Mr Wright’s Lyttelton Harbour Board LoAn Bill ..proposes to enable tbal body to borrow a further sum of .£60,090 for tho purpose of and deepening the harbour. , When the House asfleoiblda ybstbrday tlie Spsakor announced that 76 members of both. Houses had voted for the retention of Bellamy’s and 25 against. Mr Pirani pointed out that the poll on the subject should be by ‘.‘open voting and nob otherwise.” Tli.e Speaker said the Voting would bo exposed if it was the Wish of the House that it should bo'so. Mr Pirani nieved that the House be informed accordingly. The Speaker said he could not put the question vgjfohout notice. Mr Pirani asked if the open.to inspection by members. The Speaker rSpKed that the votes bad been handed to him, and He now wanted the decision of the House as to what was to be done with,them. Mr Pirani thereupon moved for a return showing those who/voted. for thb keeping open oir Closing df Bhllarily’s.

The voting on the above question was in detail as follows; —Legislative Council s For continuance, 3>; against, 4. House of Representatives; For continuance, ‘ 41; against, 21. MrTanncr: “ These in imduela (confirmed inebriates) are social pests in tho truest sense of the words.”

Thomas J. George, of Hawcra, is petitioning the House to set np a committee to enquire into a charge made by him that a certain schoolmaster indecently assaulted hie daughter in November last. Prima facie this would seem to be more a matter for investigation by a Stipendiary Magistrate. Mr J. Hutcheson: "Mr Taylor and those with him. are addicted to tne abuse of drink! ” (Roars of laughter.) . , Mt Owed MoKeoghah, of Tabaka, ie petitioning the Government to use paint manufactured by him instead of the imported article. Mr Lnwry speaking on the Inebriates’ Home Bill; after interruption by Mr Picani: “ Sir, there are some people protected by tfieir power, others by tKeir insignificance !’’ ' Mr Crowlheri “Wo are parading diseases and depravity that; do not exist in this colony.” The Premier: “ The hon. member Has made a mistake in making this speech. He is not, I am sorry to say, the only one who docs that.” (Fervent " Hear, hears.”) Mr Sligo, the newly-elected member for Dunedin, will leave the Southern city on Saturday for Wellington. ' "■ Mr Hollostoa: “If you put these people (inebriates) together, the humiliation and degradation of the thing will turn them out worse., instead of better, 1 am not hopeful of this Bill, but X shall vote for it, because I realise that the matter has to be tackled,” Mr Crowiher : “ We are experimenting for other national which are plunged in vice while wo are not. ... I have not seen half-a-dozen drunken men since I have been in Wellington.” “ The interjections of those gentlemen who belong to an extreme .party, wound a ,- .d are intended to wound other members and provoke feelings of anger which are not conducive to the well-being of this House. I trust we shall be able to rise above this slanging and mud-throwing and realise our true position.” (Gear, hear.) —The Hon Jas. Carroll. Mr J. Hutcheson ; “ I am a total abstainer in my own person, but I do not seek to indict my views on the subject on any other person.” . “ It strikes me that if some of the old and some of the new members of this House were put into a combine, the result would be a good deal of rubbish in the riddles.—Mr Flatman, a farmer, in the “debate” on the Inebriates Home Bill.

Mr Lawry : “ I think I will be quits safe in Buying that the publicans and brewers supported me last election.” (“ Quite safe,” and laughter.) "And they succeeded.” ( ‘ Hear, hear.”) Mr Orowthor : “ When Mr Taylor has been Premier five or six years he will find how necessary it is to be all things to all people —(laughter)—or he won’t reign long as Premier. Yon can’t go from one end of a street to the other without making a promise or two.” (“Oh!") “ No, yon cant't! It doesn't matter whether you break them or not.” (“ Oh!” and laughter.) “ You have to do it! Kveryone in the House has to it.” (“ No !”) “ The Premier has to do it! You say‘No!’ Those who say no, in my opinion, will be the very first to do it!” (Roars of laughter, and cries of “ No!”) “I want to know what these inebriates' homes, and training ships, and colleges are going to cost, and where the money is going to come from F”—Mr Crowther. Captain Bussell would like to see the native schools placed on the same foariog as the European schools.

“The standard of education in Hawke’s Bay is higher than anywhere else in the colony. . . The reason is that wo have there an uncommonly efficient inspector, who has the faculty of infusing a great dear of his own industry and enthusiasm into the teachers under his charge.”—Captain Bussell. . “ Whippersnnppers. dictating to men who are men.” —Mr 6. Fisher on the Prohibitionists. The Premier informed a deputation last night that ihe Government had decided not to introduce any licensing legislation this session. The Premier : “ May I he allowed to make an explanation ? The member for WaUemata said X hud no conscience. He is quite mistaken, I have a conscience.” (Laughter.) Sir Robert Stout last evening introduced a deputation to the Premier, and on its behalf asked him if tho Government intended to

in trollin'; j 'gielation lirflitirii? IhA p Giver oF licensing copimlttoee to trvneior from one part ot* a district tb another. ..no .'Premier replied- that he jvae not a/v-.re that loop-hole d£ the kind jiad been loir..open. It was clearly the intention of the Legislature that, no transfers of the kind should be mado. Tae Horowhenua B.oek Act Amendment Bill was introduced into the House and read a first time yesterday. . “ Every third m m yon meet la a Government officer.”—Mr Kolleston The chief provision of Mr Guinness’ Alooholld Liquors Act Amendment Bill is that the Uceilsing poll shall be taken oil the same day as the general election. “ I will bo no party to centralisation in regard to oar education system.”—Mr Rolloaton. lii his ahntial report Insp dor Pender save;—“lt i-, o? course, very important teat the small f f;d of police maintained sh i uU be kept in as efficient a state as possible; I would, therefore, again submit for your consideration the advisability of erecting ooltrigSs herir tho Central station, to be let to the Married men, in tHo city St reasonable rates. I'ho sidglo members df the force have nothing tb complain of. TilCy aid provided with comfortable quarters, with tael arid liflUL brid ll*vn a good cheap nfesa ; but the married ntari, I sflbtflit. are labouring under many disadvantages. Ulfo rents are very high in.Wellington,* and, in order to enable men with families to obtain a dwelling, they are compelled to live long distances from the central station, which detracts very much', in my opinion, from tlieir, efficiency.. I am awaie that many of thorn, what with, high house-rent and paj ing their life insurance premiums, have ,a hard straggle to support their families and to keep themselves in a condition to fit them physically for the arduous duties they have to perform. It is recently becoming more fully recognised, petit in the army,and police force, that comfortable lioriies; ftith proper training and a reasonable rats of pay, moan ific'fecDed. offlcienoy, and in the end economy. X therefore earnestly, ask for consideration on behalf of tho married members of the force.”