LATEST POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XIV, Issue 763, 17 August 1881, Page 3

LATEST POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From our own Correspondent.) Ll.'?,'' [BY .TELEGRAPH.] • Onf'lThursday next, Mr Bain will ask the Commissioner of Stamps if he is aware that the penny postage and penny receipt stamps have' been assimilated in the United Kingdom, and when he intends to give effect to a resolution passed by this House affirming the desirability of making a similar change in this Colony.

The Lotteries Bill, .with the' amendirients" nTade by Lower House, has been referred back to the Legislative Council in which it originated. The Upper House object to section 9 introduced by the Hoase^ot • Representatives, "which makes it^nalltb^keepj^bdok for .entering or recordiajganyNganje, or to invite any per-^ son to make a oct. The Council propose^ to omit this\ clauseO They also object to the strikfug-iou^OrWlause 35j making an : advertisement of lotteries a punishable offence. \Dne n §s;9s^9 49 is also objected tdTbff] the ground of its not allowing sufficient tiowe.toi'ela'pse before the Act conies inijuoneration. The' Co uricil propose to amend^^tseJs_by,the addition 1 of the words " this section shall not apply to or affect newspapers which are not printed in New Zealand and proprietors whereof are not resident therein ; " and to amend clause 49-iby striking out the words " November} 1881," and inserting in lieu thereof t^e " January, 1882." A Committed pf the Lower House has been appointed.to consider these .objections. The B&nse^was occupied- all the afternoon on tie Representation Bill.