POLITICAL NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 18 October 1910, Page 1

POLITICAL NOTES.

By .Telegraph,

(Special to Oamai u Mail )

i Wellington, October 17 ' —The Seventeenth Week. — The seventeenth of Paihilmeiit frill he commenced to-daj Tuth the second, reading of the Harboi Amendment Bill No. 2, the contents of 'which have inot been disclosed, and the Amending Bill to the Conciliation and Act. The debates ma> be protracted, and m than case the House it ill proceed m Committee to the Bylaws Bill, Oath Bill, Municipal Coigoiation Bill, and Coal Mines Amendment Bill The Post and Tolegiaph Amendment Bill will come on ioi second i eadiru,, and the Aid to Watei Pou ei s i Work Bill u ill bo committed if time

permits. '::-'' | The order paper of the Upper Cham-.; Vicr-is daily growing larger,"and. to-day the •Councillors will conclude "the second reading debate on the Defence Billl The third reading' of..the Immigration' Restriction; Bill will-follow, after ,\yhich ; are to be a mimber-of second readings,;: ' .aiiiohg them, being the Land Settlement; : FinanceAmendment"''Bill; and the.jEdji- ; cation.'Amendment.' Bill. '.' . .•;""'' ...;.. ;".■ '•'.' Charge's.-—' ''.;■,''. r -.'J;lt'jujs; that '■.. the .Select; \ HinerS charges of ."Tainmanyism"; lias ' its report, ready for, presentation to the House, .and there' is;., a strong r ! pro- : " lability that.the papers will be brought .dowuT by ■ the Chairman (Mr 3\ -A. . ;Hanaii)- to-morrow. The- report would ;hay&- Been presented on Friday had'the I Brims; Minister" been -present. * .■'"i' ''■ ■ 1 ."Ipt-"'.■-' —^Thb' 1 Coronation. — : " >:L'6aders;-of-the-'parties in the, House of .Representatives are walking warily in the Coronation domain. Though S;ir ' Joseph Ward lias - sent a message •frpmvChristclmrch, ■ he has not cortK njittcd the; Government to any. set course, .'.The .Opposition "party is hostile 'to"-'-the proposal / that Now Zealand should, be jceprescnted by eight dolc.gates",, and .it,-is;understood that a'pre- ■ strongly, iavors^^fieS^esp^chiriol. only one .'6|'ivbS r f.V't.hff-fl?rt^oHWi^i^^-V J ' : " far as can be g;athered/-''tH,6}ox)p'6"sitj6ii seems of iiiterferehce' with .tllp I ;' nqi''n&l-\edurse of. nest,;.,yoar' s ,?; scss'ioii.v'.';' "■"~sr'. v. '■' -X 1 '.'.•:■'.■:■"■ ;; 'Steamers::—-'.'•'•- i . "" | Discussing, for •G'ove'niniGnt'''st^.ra'^' ; bttri!?rida>'.:.:iiight, several: wa;s %feig ; ; done with mim:. ; -Tbe ;;r ,'fVtaHekaiiwas.fteing'Kopt*''aS a sMttilfbjk ' boat. : ; - run, and':''wh|ile.'iiii'''' : ha"r.h6r:'bril>*i s ha{l"a nucleus 6row-Voif.-'-bbard.-v- The ;;Hineaioa was very old and was practically useless for anything but lighthouse service. The" Government therefore intended to sell her and send Home for a boat that would carry from 1500 to 2000 tons of coal. It was, not. proposed iq purchase a perfectly .new steani'.'i, .. but bhev would'Yi-y;a'Jid..gc-t., a; dv cent one at ;) cheap ratcv ;.*. •-In' reply'to 5! r Rhodes, the Miiiifilcr said that' the Department bad gone to much trouble in. expcr-mei'.ting with various' types of / Morse ...signaling lamps, and had '-filially decided -upon a lamp which could .be"'- read, at a dis- .._ tanee of 10 miles: irTclcar weather. All the lighthouses were.now to be.equip- ; i:-ed with these lamps. —Unrest in the Cook Islands. — ■The Native Minister (the Hon. ;J. ■ garroin declines -to make ..a reply at presen't to the' allegatipns:. of unrest;, in , the Cook Islands, but lie says that'the , ni-T-tters are not -so f?erious as they are indicated -to be.- -Ho told an inter- , viewer that generally there had _ oecu a f-rcat improvement .in the affairs of ■ The trade, business, : and finance of' the Island Government ; are increasing, and aro on a sounacr , footing than had previously been the case. The great question in regard to : the Islands was," to his mind, that, of health. He had decided some time back to cope with it.by making further medical appointments.' He. was satisfied that another doctor would, have to be annomted 'apart' from.-: the .one al-vr-adv "there to* visit and attend theresidents'of the'outer-islands. Ho had carcfullv noted the' : complaints, a,nd when he received the'official reports-he would be in a positi6n';to deal with any matter", that required adjustment, iio added that heihoped to be able to visiu the Cook Islands .'during the recess.