PARLIAMENTARY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7389, 7 June 1887, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

# POLITICAL GOSSIP IN WELLINGTON. [TELEGRAPHED BY OUB OORBESPONDKNT/ WEST COAST RESERVES BILL. Tuesday, Jane 7. — Yesterday Mr. Samuel moved a new clause, extending the operation of section 13 of the Act of 1884 to all leases under the Act of 1881. A long discussion followed,- the , Maori members and Sir G. Grey opposing _the biH, while Mr. Samuel and Major Atkinson fought hard for it. Eventually Mr. Ballance had to again report progress,' when the bill bad been ia Couimittoo some hours, it co'ues on again to-day. _ The Northern Co's s.s. Gairloch arrived at the breakwater about 6 o'clock this morning, landed her passengers, and left an hour later for Waitara. We mentioned in our issue of Monday that 30 odd workmen had been discharged from tbe Harbour Works, as the sections have been completed as far as the Board at present intend to build it. No doubt whenT" V V '^— the full length, as designed by Sir John Coode — is reached there will be a little cereinonj', instead of allowing the important event to pass unmarked. The express that was damaged yesterday afternoon by the horse attached to it bolting down Devon-street, was owned by Mr. J. Lye aDd not by Mr. James Hooker as stilted in onr impression of Monday. A load of limestone and coal has been brought from the Mokau by the ss Waitira, for the Ironsand Association, to be used at the Uenui smelting operations. It has been landed at Waitara, and will be brought overland by rail. The man Wolfsbaur, for failing to support, was brought before C. E. Bawson, Eeq, R.M., this,' afternoon and remanded for a week to enable him find means to pay tbe arrears due. ' The Native Lands Court continues to hear the applications to have the titles declared to the native reserves in the neighbourhood of New Plymouth. No decisions have yet been givea. Chief Judge Mocdonald, with Hatnaera Mabupuku as Native Assessor, constitute the Court. King Frederick VI. of Denmark, while travelling through Jutland, one day entered a village school and found tbe children lively and intelligent and quite ready to answer his question. " Well, youngsters," he said, " what are the names of the greatest KiDgs of Donmark ?" With one accord they cried out, ''Canute the Great, Waldemar, and Christian IV." Just then a little girl to whom tbe schoolmaster had whispered sometning, stood up and raised her hand. " Do you know another ?" asked the King. "Yes; Frederick VI." " What great act did he perform ?" Tbe girl hung her head and stammered out, •' I don't know." "Be comforted, my child," eaid the King ; " I don't know either." "Pat, I hear joii'r on strike 1" "So I am. 1 struck for fewer hours." " Did jou succeed ?" "I did. I'm not working at all now." Tho smallest. artillery gun to be used on the new man-of-war Victoria is . the 3-pouader Hotclikiss quick-firing gun. It is a gad of great range and penetrative power, which by means of mechanical urrangenionts can be fired with deliberate aim twenty times a minute by tho employment of only tliroe men. Pompous Youny Lawyer (to prisoner) — 11 An you have no connr-ol the Court Ims deputed me to do'^f > you." Prisoner — "Am thai fao ?" Youug Lawyer — " Yen." Prisoner (to Ji..! l^-) — " Dvi I plo^'Js guilty, jo : iioiiipj. ftu fir.vH 'ii^ui'f on dc mjioy ce 1 ' Jo Couit.' 1 E:>r"2liirru >oun^ 111 1 'v, 'W.'u^ '!p'."'.r'li ) an'l .'lUareKaiug v young uovb[);-.p^r rmn ; "Wliuw wonderlul tl>.ns{ ia apace • Do you .. /u" i^-1 oseiwhclxtJ by it,; iiii.ncn 0 ; t , v"— •yciJrigj'<cwc» I'^r.Mau: "Illkjulil rath r think I -i*; I hwvo & c-oluma uto fili every night." A r'MHical composer, having boon «sltcd i£ he 1. i'l doao anything lately, fjaicf his hvA work '..i-.b v oouipoeition with hi« croditors. A vicar's little daughter, on vi=iH:\.' auoti'.er vicarage, said: " What does your pa want v study tor ? He doesn't smoko." "Pupa," eiiid the Bon, "what 'loffl 'jumping titiiconciufiion' moan?" ''Gri'bbioy t'uc labtpitico oi luncU," wab the 'juick reply. An Active Mouther. — A circuH acrobat. A Gentleinun of Polish. — A boot-bluck.^