Political Gossip.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6498, 28 April 1888, Page 2

Political Gossip.

(Wellington Correspondeni of Otago Daily v The Meetoral law Weolment proposals' have not yet beea discussed in CabrneCand several impwfcint points have ttall to he definitely settled. The qualifications of electors is understood to be one of these.and it is to be suspected that consideroblft difierence of opinion exists in the Cabinet iiself as i to whether (I) plurality of voting should be abolished altogether onrefridental qualification being retained,and (2) whether the number of districts in which a vote may be exercised should be definitely limited to two or three, « (S) whether the present plan shoiddbe preserved of allowing each person to, vote in every distriot in which he has * specified interest. It is not thouehtlikely that there will be any further txtension of the polling hours, which aiocoi*. sidered to be long enough to afford ampletime for every elector to record his vote ff ho chooses to take the trouble to. do so. It isinot yet decided whether any bill amendingthe new Land Act shall be brouehfc in this year, but at present the disposition seems to bo to. postpone it to the followine session I* is rumoured that if an amendment bill should he introduced, one proinißent feature will be. a provision as toHne-re-letting of tho Canterbury runs, ths ; leases of which expire in May 1890, and that it will be proposed" to classify those runs, distinguishing the purely pastoral from the semi-agricultural, and according a lengthened fixed tenure of 14 or 21 years in the f orrae? oase, so as to give greaterseourity* and. encouyage improvements. The- new rules of procedure will, it fe • I understood, bo the first business that the House will be asked to deal with when it meets, and the disorission of tttese rules is expected to ocoupy the best 1 port of a. fortnight unle33 the proposals should, contrary to all anticipations, be either accepted or ■ summarily wjectQd..

f An eichango says that Pain's firework* j will never appear at Wellington again. The | Basin Reserve the only place available, is • overlooked by Mount Cook, On the first , night there wero 8000 people. On the second the brilliant ones had discovered Mount Cook, and took their hankerchiefs Bp there and sat upon them. A prominent • OlMal in the world of police and defunct had a tent pitched up there, nice and snug and i comfortable, and invited his friends "to come and see the fireworks and partake of light *" refreshments'"

, '<Ejbatino'b Powdeh" destroys 'Bros. Fleas, Moths, Bhetms, and all other inseote, whilst quite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating Beetles the success of this powder is extraordinary. It is perfectly clean in application. See G» article you purohase is "Sbmihg's" as imitations are noxious and ineffectual. Sold - in Tins, 6d, liywct 2s fid-each, br all chen* usta.