POLITICAL POINTS.
Mr Montgomery i “ & an y°J tell me, erf, what time I have?" Sir Maurice .promptly rang the bell, amidst a peal of laughter, Mr Orowther said yesterday that the Wellington dock scheme was meant to monopolise the trade of Lyttelton. “We are all tarred with the same brush I" he candidly avowed, amidst laughter, “We are always trying to run our own little monopoly for all it ia worth.” ‘1 he Speaker of the Legislative Council has invitedfthe members of the Council to meet His Excellency tho Governor at dinner in the Council Chamber on November Ist. Mr J. Hutcheson has got some State scrip of four or five £1 deposit ventures at homo, which, he told the House yesterday, he was keeping as “ litetary curiosities." The Minister for Education, in the Council yesterday, in reply to Mr Shrimeki, stated that an employee of Mr A, H. Chapman, of Kurow, had been in the employ of the Government Stock Department during the past 12 months; that his duties were to patrol tho tops of the mountains iu that district to prevent aheep-stealipg ; that he wds paid .£2l 5s for his services; that ho was not now in the employ of the Government,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3264, 22 October 1897, Page 3
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