POLITICAL NOTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144146, 16 July 1913, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

ALLEGED POLITICAL BARGAIN. THE HIGH &OMMISSIONERSHM*. BT TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. WELLINGTON, July 16. The statement made by Mr. Witty during his speech in the present debata to the effect that die present Govern* ment obtained office as the result of an arrangement with the Hon. T. Mackenzie (late Prime Minister and now! High Commissioner) was referred to by! the Prime Minister this evening. Mr. Massey declared emphatically! that there was no bargaining such aat 1 suggested. Air. Witty: One of your own men said so. Mr. Alassey: I know nothing about it. Air. Mackenzie was never approach, ed by any one on our side of the House and he never approached us. That I should say this is only fair to on absent man and a member of the opposite side of the House, Air. Witty: Now a member of your side you mean. Mr. Alassey repeated that nothing in the way of bargaining took place. There was no mention of the appointment of Air. Mackenzie as High Oammissioner prior to the division takiagi place in .the House. BABIES ON THE RAILWAYS. Mr. Okay (Taranaki) gave notice ttt ask the Alinister of Railways whether ho will, in the interests of women travelling with children on the New Zealand railways, consider the advisability of placing on all mail trains a carriage in which women travelling with chu--. dren Will have preference? ’ AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. The member for Palmerston (Mr. Buick) is quite confident that the prored agricultural college will have tqi somewhere near Palmerston. In his speech to-night ho referred to the central position of Palmerston, and claimed, that no other centre was es well adapted as the home of the coming institution. One member suggested the Waikato, and another facetiously asked “What about Woodville?” Air. Buickhowever, held to the opinion that PaL merston was the one and only place*; for the college. RETORT TO MB. ISITT. Air. Massey got home an excellent-re-tort this evening at the expense of Mr. L. M. Isitt (Christchurch North). Tha occasion arose when the Prime Minister was inveighing in the course of a strong speech against the actions oilthe previous Government. Air. Isitt interjected “Satan reproving sin.,” hub Air. Alassey was equal to the occasion, and retorted amidst laughter,, "then the hon. gentleman must bo Satan.”