PARLIAMENT.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 101, 21 June 1895, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

The session of Parliament opened yesterday. The Government are starting the session under difficulties, as the Colonial Treasurer is absent from the colony, and the Minister of Lands is in rather a feeble state of health. The Premier also, from pressure of work, has been almost prostrated, so that the work of conducting the business of the session at the commencement will fall very heavily on those fit to be in harness. The most important measure promised is the Bill to deal with local government. Already an impression has got abroad that it is questionable whether the Government will endeavor to pass it through this session. Of course no definite opinion can be passed on it yet, as an authentic copy of it has not been circulated. The reported trend of it, however, is, taking away local control from towns and small boroughs. We do not think it is likely to satisfy residents in those districts unless something very taking is offered in their stead. From the drift of legislation it would appear to be the intention of the Government to do away with all subsidies and give local bodies greater rating power. If this is the Government idea it will not meet with the approval of country settlers, who, to a man, consider that the subsidies sdould be increased out of general revenue to compensate them for their contributions to railways and other public works from which they derive but very little direct benefit. Local government is a dangerous rock ahead for the Ministry, and we should not be surprised if it caused them to be stranded when they again appear before the country.

An impounding notice appears in this issue.

Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Go sell stock at Opunake on Tuesday next. Mr W. D. Scott will sell by auction, tomorrow, at his mart, the balance of goods left over from Thursday’s sale. A young lad, named Paul Kemple, was oa t with a gun at Greymouth, and accidently shot himself. He died from the effects next morning.

A meeting of ladies interested in getting up a bazaar in aid of the Anglican Church Fund will be held on Tuesday next, at- Mrs G. W. Rogers' residence. We give a reminder of the meeting at Knowles’s Hotel this evening of shareholders and others in the Opunake Co-operative Society, Limited.

Messrs Newman Bros have had their premises repainted, which has produced a very marked effect on their appearance. The work was entrusted to Mr F. Des Forges, who carried out the work carefully and well.

Nicholson, at Wellington, for inflicting injuries on a woman there which caused her death, has been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude.

It is reported that Ruapehu is again abnormally active. Rumblings were heard in its vicinity the other night, and an enormous cloud of vapor was seen to be issuing from it in the morning.

The meeting which was to bo held on Saturday 'eyening in the school-room re Parliamentary Union, has been postponed till Tuesday evening at the same time and place, as the adjourned Jockey Club meeting to-iqorrow night would clash with it. Messrs Berry and McAllister have opened up their studio in the Foresters’ Hall for one week, and are kept busy. Specimens of workmanship, which reflect every credit on their skill, are on view in Mr W. Pettigrew’s window. Our attention has been called to the dangerous state of the bridge near Mr Ghing’s known as “ Maxwell’s bridge.” It is very likely than an accident will happen ere long, unless something be done to protect is, which may result in loss of life. At the inquest in Wellington on the woman Louie Smith, who died from burns received through a lamp being thrown in the house in which she was staying, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Andrew Kennedy, or Jewitt,

Minnie Deane’s trial for murder has commenced at Invercargill, before Mr Justice Williams, the evidence being the same as at the preliminary investigation. There are between forty and lifty witnesses, and the case is likely to last four days. A Nottingham giant, Brough by name, is on exhibition. He is 23 years old, stands Bft in his socks, and measures over 47in round the chest At the age of 12 he stood over 6ft, and working as a miner, he received man’s pay. His grandfather was over 6ft in height, but his parents and brothers and sisters are of average stature.

At the Land Board meeting on Monday, the Banger reported that he estimated the value of the portion of the Moturoa prison site, required by the Freezing Works Company, at £65 per acre. On Mr Stock’s motion it was decided that the upset price to be recommended to the Government for the land be fixed at £BO per acre.—News. ■ As will be seen by advertisement the Bev Mr McDonold (Hawera) and Bev Mr MacLennan (Manaia) will hold divine service in the Town Hall on Monday evening next. It is proposed, we understand, to endeavor to get the members of the Presbyterian congregation together, and try to establish this parish by providing a resident clergyman and erecting a church. The adjourned general meeting of the Opunake Eacing Club will be held to-morrow evening at Kennedy’s Hotel, when a full attendance of members is requested. The course committee will have definite proposals to lay before the meeting with regard to a ‘permanent course, there being the old one at Opua and one on Mr W. Pearces’ property this side of Pihama, under offer. It is with deep regret that we have to an. nounce the death of Mr and Mrs J. M; Hickey’s infant daughter, Daisy, which took place on Wednesday evening. They also had the misfortune to lose another daughter a couple of weeks back, both being carried off by bronchitis. The parents have the heartfelt sympathy of a large circle of friends in their sad bereavement.

It has been decided by the subscribers to the Newman Memorial Fund to put a memorial window in the new Anglican Church. This will form a pleasing memento of the deceased and meets with the approval of his relatives. The late Mr J. Newman was always to the fore-in any public object which was for the advancement of the place, and the hearty response made showed how his memory is cherished by those who had the pleasure of knowing him.

During the forthcoming session of Parliament the Fair Wages Bill will be introduced by the Minister of Labor. The Bill provides that all contracts with local bodies and the Government must contain a clause requiring the rate of wages current in the district in particular trade affected to be paid. The Masters and Apprentices Bill will be re-intro-duced in a modified form, and also the Undesirable Immigrants Bill. The Japanese still come under the latter Bill.

The Melbourne Age states that the De Laval Cream Separator Company has purchased the patent rights for the whole world (exclusive of Australia) of the Evenden Lightning Butter Extractor, “ a Victorian invention.” As the paper adds that Mr Evenden, the inventor, was working at his trade (plumbing) in Wellington, New Zealand, when he evolved the idea, it will be seen that the extractor is not really a Victorian invention. The Age remarks that Mr Evenden is the inventor and patentee of several other articles, such as spring-headed nails and the like in connection with the building trade. At latest dates Mr Evenden was in Sweden pursuing investigations regarding butter making.

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