Political Jottings.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10451, 28 October 1904, Page 1

Political Jottings.

—fc — Mr Bennetti asks Ike Minister ol' Railways' whether ho; will, during the recess 1, take into his favourable consideration the. desirability-of having: .railway sheep. Iruoka roofed over,, n.s there, a.ro many deaths among sheep in the trucks during wet weather, and, besides., the sheep are often so dirty, when taken out of the trucks at the. sale yards; that they have on that account to: be sold at less than their value. i Mr Bennett, wants: the Government to amend the. law this session', with a view of •putting the fruit- growing industry on the same footing as the dairying industry, so tha.b the fruit growers may be able to borrow money at a theaip rate of interest for .the . erection of factories; for jam making, : and otherwise preserving their ■■fruit. I Mr Taylor having satirically asked I the 1 Premier whether thei Right lionMr Balfour's 1 proposal for the establishment of a,n Imperial Council composed of thei Commissioners for Canada, Australia!, South Africa, and New Zealand explains the delay in submitting for consideration of the House the promised (resolution, protesting against the employment of Chinese. in' the Transvaal mines, the Premier gets back at the member for .Christ-* ■ church by supplying the printed answer "No." illemlock, pennyroyal, St. John's wort, tutsan; and fennel " have Be3n recommended to> be added; .to the schedules of noxious weedsMi' Flatman is to ask the Government whether it will consider the desirableness! of ha.ving the thai', or. Caucasian mountain goats, lately presented to them, by the Du^e of Bedford, liberated in, he. vicinity of Mount Cook. ____—.