POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9305, 3 February 1892, Page 2

POLITICAL GOSSIP.

MEASUEES FOR NEXT feESSION. [PRR PRBB3 ASSOCIATION. | Wellington, February 3. — ■ Among tho measures being prepared for next session is one empowering the Government to take possession of all unclaimed moneys in the Banks and unclaimed land. They will probably be placed under the control of the Public Trust Office, -which will administer them, and after lapse of a certain time hand over the proceeds still unclaimed to the Colonial Treasurer. The Premier states that it is not likely the names of those the Government desire to nominate to the Legislative Council would bo submitted to Lord Onslow at all, but to his successor. The Government had absolutely come to no determination as to the names, but the number would bo considerable, very likely as many as fifteen. Among these would be a proportion of labcr representatives, strictly drawn from the ranks of the actual working class. i In consequence of two seat 3 being vacant the Land Board has not mot for over a month, two ordinary meeting days being passed. The Nelson Jubilee races wero commenced to-day, the principal event, in which the local mare Durus was engaged, being the Cup of 115 soys; distanco If miles. The Committee appointed to enquire into tho financial affairs of the Rifles Band will meet to-night to draw up their report, which will be submitted to an adjourned public meeting to-morrow night. Messrs Budge & Good advertise Vntriss for their annual sheep fair in the Manaia yards. An exhaustive onquiry into the condition of tho frozen meat shipped at Waitara per s.e. lonic has beon mado by the New Zoaland Loan and Mercantile Company's agent. As a result the agent has advised tho Wan.'anui office as follows :—": — " The chief engineer of the lonic certifies in writing that the beef from Waitara ia all hard, and was properly frozen before being ptowed for good." This, says the Batcera dtar, is satisfactory, as tho liability of the insurance company seems now to bo boyond question. Tho railway revenue for the past month has gone up with a bound, and of the £20,000 deficit all but £7,000 is now wiped off. Admiral Scott informs the Governor that the Royalist searched the So'oinon Islands and could find no survivors of the wreck of the Kentish Lass. A vessel had been seen bottom upwards with logs floating about, but they could not find that any of tho crew had landed, or they must have been seen. No further search will bo made in tho locality. Hia Worship tie Mayor has received the following reply, to his congratu'utory telegram, from the Mayor of Nelson :— "Many tnanks for kind sympathy re success of Jubilee. Everything going off splendidly — in fact a great success. Pleas© convey our thanks to all your Bottlers." Wo wore not aware that the education of children was charged for according to tho weight of tho latter until wo read of it in the prospectus of the Auckland College and Grnnimor School as published in the New Zeulawl Herald-. It there slatea :—: — «' Fees. — These aro : For pupils in tho lower school, if under tho ago of thirteen years, £2 16a per term ; for all othera £3 10a per ton, except that for two members of ono family both chargeable with tho higher fee, it is reduced to £3 3s each." Tho Land and Survey Office has printed for tho Now Zealand Government a very neat guide for tourists visiting tho colony, a copy of which has been forwarded us by Mr Weetman. The illustrations are excellent, but it is a pity tho text was not revised before the pamphlet was issued to the public. There are several very misleading errors in it. For instance, in the little portion devoted to Taranaki, it states " The Waimato Plains stretch for fortyfive mWeB, from Manutahi to Ofeato." And ngaio, "about, thirty-six miles from New Plymouth to Pukearuhe, the scene of the raid by which the households of Mr Whiteley and Lieutenant Gascoyne wore destroyed." We thought no one was so ignorant of tho circumstances connected with tho White Oliffs masnacro as to refer to it as abot'O. The Roy Mr Whiteloy was visiting tho ppot to perform the duties of his sacred calling, when he and his horse wero shot. A gentleman at Launceston writes to Truth that, "As on old colonist and a loyal Englishman, I went to have a look at the Ringarooma aa she lay in the Tamar. I made a caeual remark to a seaman, hoping that the men wero comfortable. I was t ken aback to receive tho reply that ho would gladly leave the ship if ho could. He went on to say that tho men were treated like slaves or dogs ; that they were incessantly badgered and bullied aud put to unnecessary work. I hroe of his mates were standing by. They confirmed these statements, all telling the same story." The sensational arrest of a young girl at Cambridge, which wag cabled out from London a short time since, presented some peculiar feature. The girl who was only 14 year a of age, was asked the way by a member of the Universty, replied to him, and went on. A proctor's ' bull dog ' saw the incident, and tho girl was promptly hauled before the University Court, with tho result that she was sentencod to 14 days in tho Spinning-house. Tho proceedings of the Court wero scandalous, but it must be saH for the Vice Chancollor that he had before him tho polico record of prostitutes in the town, and tho namo of Daisy Hopkins, the girl in question, was in it. The person who spoke to the girl admitted that he mado the approach. H3 is a married man. Already lie has taken his namo off the books and has ' gone down.' ! The Philadclphians aro giving a large order for aluminium. According to tho American Engineering News the new metal | is to bo substituted for cast iron in the I tower of tho new public building in Philadelphia, where it will buvo 400 tons in weight and rendor unnecessary tho constant expense of painting. It should be a good material for the building of Eiffel Towers. Among the rumors of the day, says the Mclbourno Leader, which have not" boon caught up by tho society journals is that incident of Larkin'*, the defaulting Building Society secretary, writing to Lord Sheffield from gaol to put off a luncheon to which ho had invited his lordship is the oddest of all, and makes one feel as if in the midst of a social earthquake In fact wo never sco a . solid well-to-do looking individual ordoring champagne for his lunch with tho name gaiety as Larldn manifested when disposing ofhis sparkling tipplo, without woudoring if ho has as much right to it as we have to our modest boer. The most bewildering part of tho affair is that theso defaulters aro all religious and sinning lights in their soveral denominations. They may or may not bo wise in their devotion to Pomeroy, but it evidently pays to " appear pious." Wolfe's Sohnappa Btands alone witl.oat a'rival elixir in tho catalogue of magiitt- ! 1 cent tonio, -