The Representation Bill. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1422, 13 August 1881, Page 3

The Representation Bill. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

"Wellington, Last Night. That child of promise, the Representation Bill, better known as the Redistribution oi Seats Bill, found its way into the pigeon-holes to-day. Considering the talk about it, it does not present a very formidable appearance. Exclusive of the short title and preamble it is a measure of six clauses, printed as follows :—: — "After dissolution and the expiration of the present Parliament the House of Representatives shall consist of ninety-one members over and beyond the membeis elected for Maori electoral district under the provision of any Act for the time being in force. For the purpose of the election of the said number of membeis, the colony shall be divided into 92 electoral districts named, defined, and set forth in the schedule. The Colonial Secretary shall forthwith cause properly authenticated maps of the said electoral districts to be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the House within 30 days after the coming into operation of this Act. The registrar appointed for each electoral district defined in the schedule, shall form new electoral rolls for such districts in the manner provided by the ' ' Registration of Electors Act, 1870." The Electoral rolls in force on the day when this Act comes into operation shall be rolls from which new rollb shall be formed. Where boundaries of any electoral districts as described in the said schedule are the same as now existing, the electoral roll now in force for such district shall be deemed to have been formed under this Act. It shall not be lawful for the registrar of any district at any time hereafter, under section 6 or 9 of said Act, to place ou the electoral roll of biicli district the name of any person after day on -which the writ is issued for the election of a member for such district, and before such election is concluded upon such new electoral rolls being so formed, every registrar shall give notice thereof to the Colonial Secretary, who shall publish the fact in the Gazette, and from the day of such publication the electoral roll so formed for each such district shall be the electoral roll for such district for all purposes.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life loss difficult to each other ? Alleged Plot to Assassinate Mr. Bradlaugh. — The Central News states ; — The authorities at Scotland-yard yesterday afternoon sent a detective to Mr Bradlaugh, MP,, to inform him that they were in possession of sworn information that there was a plot to assassinate hitfl. It seems that, the person who gave thq information to the police swore he overheard a party of foreigners arranging to waylay Mr Bradlaugh on his way from the House of Commons and Mil him. What waa the particular offence given to the foreigners by the member [-for Northampton was not made very clear. The informant further swore he spoke With the men about the matter and theil went and told the police. The detective" department at Scotland-yard offered to extend_.9pecial police protection to Mr ißradlaugh, who thanked the police fo£ their courtesy towards him, but, at the 'same time intimated that he thought ho could tfcke oare of himself, ' and that [possibly the assassins might > I need protection.