PARLIAMENTARY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5808, 15 July 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

POLITICAL GOSSIP IN WELLINGTON. THIS X>A."i'. l»BOSI OTO SPECIAL CORRHSrONDKNT.] LOOAL BODIES FINANCE AND POWERS BILL. WkdSßsdat, July 15.— The House has at last settled down to something like business. The Lacal Bodies Finance and Powers Bill occupied all yesterday and | last night, as the Government* agreed te eliminate all the most objectionable ieatnres. The second reading has been agreed to on the voices. Major Atkinson contended that the question should 'not bo treated from a party stand point. He urged that roads were just as profitable as railways ; much more so many people in the colony will contend.' VINCENT PYKE ON THE QUESTION. Mr. Vincent Pyke in his usual epigrammatic way said ho would not oppose the bill because it had been so purged and eviscerated by that potent medicine, unpopularity, that it wai comparatively harmless, but he looked upon it as 'past patching and not worth mending. That is the feeling of many people, bnt the House will do so more tikkenng, as Mr. Pyke forcibly pointed ont. SCHEME FOR BURSTING UP LARGE ESTATES CHANGED. Sir G. Grey is going to formulate a scheme for bursting op big estates. He would purchase them on debentutes, cut up into small farms, and let on perpetual leases. The whole human race is to be made eternally happy by having patches of land. Many would be sorely distressed if they got a free grant to-morrow at a pepperoorn rent, if the conditions were that they lived upon it. COLONEL TRIMBLE ON LOCAL BODIES FINANCE BILL. During the debate last night Colonel Trimble pointed out there were no less than nineteen Road BonrJs in Taranaki. He had long been anxious to see some of them merged into larger districts. He considered th« Local Bodies Finance and Powers Bill vould aggravate that mischief, and that it would offer a premium to aplit up father than amalgamate. YOGEL ON THE WHOLE QUESTION Sir Julius Yogel, in winding up the debate, made a very good speech. He said lie considered that Auckland was going to be the queea of the Pacific. He twitted Major Atkinson with hiß recent declaration that the best wa> was to let the Government go on until they had done such injury to tho colony that the people would be glad to get rid of them. Sir J. Yogel said that was not a public spirited view for the leader of the Opposition to take. ATKINSON MAKES A CORRECTION. Major Atkinson rasa to say that he had not used the words imputed to him. What he said was that he would take care the Government did not do any injury to the colony while he remained in the House. VOGEL'S CLAIM FOR PAST SERVICE. The principal topic of discussion is Vogel's claim for six or seven thousand pounds, in conection with floating of loans. Yogel has upset various little governing cliques and family parties. There many cliques who would be only too glad to see a eheqne written out for the amount e'aimed, if they thought Julius would cut his stick and go back to London. PROTEST FROM EMPLOYERS OF LABOUR. A deputation from employers of females and boys waited on Mr. Stout to-day, protesting against Mr. Bradshaw's clause in tbe Factories Act Amendment Bill. The deputation urged that they were frequently called upon in cane of emergencies to keep their employees after hours. Hon. Mr. Stout, in reply, said as far as girls were concerned he would not make any alteration, but he suggested that when the bill was before the Council a clause ■hould be inserted providing for the issue of permits in cases of emergency for the employment of boys only after ordinary hours.