POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12737, 10 August 1903, Page 5

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE

MaORBSHISTOKT. I {Fboii ' Ocb- Owjt Cobebsppsiiekt.) WEIUNGTOtf; iAugnafcf 9. MriEarata4as\,presented a-pettfcion- {torn. 1100 Maoris, which, eays it has beea heard :fiy them that ther-Goremmentas .payings certain man- to iraite the history of their .ancestors. They are not- agreeable, they ■say, , that -the; genuine, corßeoti history and traditions of their ancestors should be wantonly trampled upon, nor are they .favourable to the wrong spending of the moneys ofrihe colony upon: the printing of tire work, and they urge that the author should pay for the publication of his own fifcprios, whiob. they characterise ia uncomplimentary terms. They therefore ask the House to submit the history to-some persons, of competent knowledge, lest etories of new creation be published, and M (rto be accepted as'facts by subsequent generations. NEW' PLYMOUTH HATtBOUR 'BOARD. Feeling has -been aroused in Taranaldover the How Plymouth Harbour Board Empowering Bill, which, gives the board power to borrow £150,000. Settlers who already are pretty heavily rated are objecting to a proposal which will still further increase their liabilities, and a Defenoe League has been formed, and , a strong deputation to the Premier against the measure is being arranged. ' . . MEDICAL MEN. Discussing the Medical Registration Bill, Mr Laurensou mentioned a case in which a man suffered from an internal complaint. The doctor said it was cancer, then, he said it was livor complaint, and when the man died the post mortem oxaminntidtt showed it was neither, but inflammaticm. of the bowok, and the doctor—a much lettered one—put in a bill for £410. Formerly, said-. Mr Laurenson, when a man died of an internal complaint it was cancer; now it is . : ' 7 OTAGO DEPUTATIONS.';'. ' . Two deputations from Otago will ask the Premief on Monday for money in connection with the University and'Higli School. A third deputation will ask him to validate the Bruce'Hconetng poll,'