POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 138, 3 August 1911, Page 7

POLITICAL.

NOTES BY THE WAY. August 9th is the date fixed for the election of a Chairman of Committees ir> the Legislative Council. It is considered piobahle that the present bolder of the position, the Hon. W. C. E. CaiiKTOSis, will be returned unopposed. ■ ■ . The hiiring Commission, which will open its enouiry in Wellington on Thursday, will later take evidence at all the mining centres. • It is not expected that its report will he availaide for urosentation to Parliament .during the present session, hut it will probably ho made the basis lor any mining legislation to he hi ought in next year. The first private Bill of which notice was given this session is rn he called (if passed) the Field Divorce Act. The object of the proposed legis-* lotion is to on a I do one Arthur Henry Field, of Ashburton, notwithstanding the provisions of the Divorce i nd Matrimonial Causes Act, 1908, to petition the Supremo Court for dissolution of jus marriage with bis wife. The North Island section of the Bcriescntation Commission has practically completed its report, but (bo South Island members of the Commission have a more difficult task with the extended boundaries due to the reduced number of seats, and their week is hardly likely to end until another week has elapsed, Then the pro-

visional boundaries will ho gazetted. Mr. Sidey is very hopeful of lie prospects of Ids Daylight Saving Bill, which occupies a very favoui able position on the Order Taper, and seems certain to obtain a good deal of support. It proposes to set the clock, forward an hour in the summer months, so that business, will commence and cease an hour earlier than in winter. Dir. Sidey does not mind how the Bill fares so long as T'ai liamcnt approves of the principle, and ho is hopeful 0 at the Government may take it up. The opposition to it conics from the Tress Association on account of the ‘onfusion that might arise in cabling, hut Mr. Sidey has anticipated the objection In- postponing the operation of the Bill for a year to give the Commonwealth time to fall into lino with a similar measure.

The app°aranca of an Industrial Conciliatin' and Arbitration Act on the Order Paper has excited much interest in Parliamentary circles, hut the Bill itself is not likely, it is understood, to contain any radical ucints o e difference from existing law. It will mainly consist of amendments such as have been found necessary for the smoother working of the system. When the Minister of Labour brings the measure before Parliament, several private members will endeavour to insert amendments in committee. It is understood that Sir Arthur Guinness (Grey) will endeavour to secure repeal of the domicile clause of the present Act. under which the dop i dents of an injured worker domiciled outside the Dominion cannot obtain compensation. The member for Grey proposes that guy dependent of English nationality, residing within the Empire shall be entitled to recover.—“N.Z. Times.”