PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7662, 22 June 1896, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

S-^-;.-, ' (Herald Special ßeporter. ) :'.■-'' ; . Wellington, to-day. '*-.'. A private Bill has been introduced into ..• both branches' of the Legislature to legalise ' , the amalgamation of the Primitive Methodist and Bible Christian Churches. - ■ . The Minister of Works saye he is proud . to be thought a modified edition of the . Premier.'. ' " Ricoarton " Russell says that the late Government mining engineer (Mr H. Gordon) received a guarantee of £7000 for threo ; years' work when he left the Government service to 'join the foreign mining syndicate, £4000 'of which was deposited with the . Government. A Royal Commission of Enquiry into the . police force of the colony is being asked for by Mr Joyce. The Minister for Education to-day promised a deputation from New Plymouth and . Stratford that no interference would be "~ permitted with the endowment, comprising IOjOOO acres, set apart for higher education in the Taranaki provincial district. This is the endowment which the Wellington people were trying to nobble for the purposes of the , Middle Island University College. ' *' The objecb of extending the course- of medical study under the Medical Practitioners Registration Act Amendment Bill to five years is to bring the law into lino with that of the Home country and other colonies . Now that the Address-in-Reply . debate ' has extended into the second week, a large number of members have expressed their determination to speak, and there is nof the remotest likelihood of its beiDg brought to a, close at to-morrow's sitting. ■ r < < ■•