The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1880.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3476, 8 July 1880, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1880.

"The Membehs or the Gesjehal A&.scnibly Expenses Bill "' is the title of one introduced in the House by Mr. Scddon, the member for Hokitika, which provides for the payment of £210 per session to each member of the House, if residing more than three miles from the place of meeting, and £150 to those residing within five miles. The Legislative Council living outside of the three miles to receive £100 per session, and those

within that radius nil. Proportionate reduction to be made for absence, provided that, it be not. caused by illness. Actual travelling expenses also to be allowed, and all payments to be made out of the consolidated fund on the Speaker's certificate, and no honorarium to be paid to Ministers, or to the Speaker, or Chairman of Committees. The Bill has passed its second reading, but we scarcely expect to find it on the Statute Book.

Retrenchment is now the order of the day. The Government and the Opposition arc rivals in the raca as to who can make the largest reductions. The Civil Service is to be reduced in numbers and salaries ; services arc to be curtailed or abolished ; and luxuries are to be dispensed with. This return to primitive simplicity cannot, of course, be effected at once, but it is to be clone. A post office, a telegraph office, and a gaol, are not, for the future, to be located at ever}- cross road ; nor is a Magistrate's Court to be in every village. The man in blue will not adorn every street corner ; and everybody under the benign influence of our eJucational system will be converted into law abiding subjects. The educational vote is to be reduced, but, in order to avoid any bad result, the Bible is to be read iv schools, and our morals are to be sedulously cultivated on the pattern of the ancient Hebrews. Under these invigorating reforms the burden of our public debt will be cheerfully borne; and by the economical operation of the Licensing Bill and the Beer Tax we shall on the whole save money. It is, therefore, apparent that things do not look so bad when they arc fairly faced. Even the civil servants whose services arc to be dispensed with will not entirely go to the wall, for Mr. Macandrew proposes to give them land to cultivate cabbages on. Why cabbages, we know not, but we suppose they will not be restricted to that useful vegetable. The whole savings on the estimates to which Government has jigreed will amount to £150,000, besides other savings which the Honse may make additional as the estimates are being passed.

From OUR summary of Parliamentary proceedings it will be seen that after a long debate on g.oing into Committee of Supply, a resolution of Mr. Sauuders, supported by the Government, was carried, all the amendments on it being rejected. The substance of the resolution is that all the salaries and wages iv the aggregate are to be reduced by 10 per cent. This means that by way of reductions on the salaries of those retained, and by the abolition of offices, that a reduction on the million a year paid in salaries and wages for eight months of the year, will be close on £70,000, or at the rate of £100,000 for the year. That a reduction is to be also made on ihe services, and that the officers of the Legislature be dealt with separately. The Ministers promised that a clause would be introduced in the Appropriation Act to give effect to the resolution. With respect to services, the Ministers promise to state on each class, what reduction can be made, and to what amount, they can be reduced. If the House insists on further reductions on the services the Government will give effect to them as much as possible. It is therefore, we learn, probable that the estimates will go through without much material alteration, except as io services, on the understanding that the Appropriation Act will give the authority for making the deductions agreed to. The reductions, it is anticipated, will be chiefly made by dispensing with officers whose services are not urgently needed, and that the small salaries will not be heavily taxed. A proposal to reduce the Governor's salary has been spoken of, but that cannot be given effect to without the concurrence of the Home Government and then only on the salary of a new Governoi*. It is therefore out of the question to think of altering it now, the time being when the term of the present Governor draws to' a close.

The officers and crew of the Hinemoa will be discharged, it is said, at the end of the month, and the vessel laid up. We have to acknowledge from Mr. Gilmour the receipt of this month's number of Bradshaw's Guide, which is as replete with iuformation as usual. The steam launch for the Harbour Board, has arrived in sections, and steps will be taken for its immediate construction. A new scale of fees in the Resident Magistrate's Court will come into force on the Ist August. A considerable alteration has been made on the old scale, and suitors will find the luxury of litigation to be more expensive in future. An entertainment was held on Tuesday evening, at the Odd Fellows' Hall, in aid ot the St. Mary's Church Bazaar Fund, the Vcn. Archdeacon Govetfc presiding. Numerous readings, recitations, and songs were given and were well received. Th". sum of £~> KJs.tid. was realized in aid of the Bazaar Fund. On Wednesday afternoon, as a cab belonging to Mr. Ross was driving up Devon-street one of the horses sndOenly became restive and kicked furiously. Both horses then bolted, drawing the cab on to the footpath in front of Mr. J. C. George's shop. The pole of the cab was in dangerous proximity to the shop windows, and the horses finding themselves wedged in between the cab and the shop, commenced kicking vigourously, but, fortunately, owing to the exertions of the byestanders, the horses were unharnessed before any serious damage was done. One ot the horses was injured on the off! hind leg, and some c f the harness was broken. Advice to Mothers! — Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothixtt Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes "as bright as a button."' It soothes the child, it softens the gums, alays all pain, relieves wind, regulates ( tlie bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arisingfrom teething or other causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is. Hd. per bottle. Manufactured at 4 ( J3 Oxford-street, London.;