IN PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 25, 27 October 1898, Page 20

IN PARLIAMENT.

• *. The Divorce Bill having passed both Houses has been reserved f<j**i| the Royal assent. * w The Railway Authorisation Bill has been introduced and read the first time. The Loan Bill has passed the Lower House. The Notornis before the House. The Hon. J. McKenzie is said S to be favourable to its purchase by the Government. On the motion of the Right Hoo. the Premier some forty Bills were expunged iroin the Order Paper. The Pnarmaoy Bill and the Juries Act Amendment Bill were ordered to be committed. We referred \a*X week to the disfavour shown by the Council to the Wa^es Protection Bill. This took tangible shape in the amended form in which it was afterwards returned to the Lower House. The Hou.-e of Representatives have, however, refused to sanction the amendments made by the Council. The waste lands committee reported on the petition alleging maladministration of the land department in Kaikoura district, and found that their was no foundation for the allegations. Captain Russell has been asking the Minister for Mines what qualifications and experiences are deemed essential in persons holding the office of assistant inspector of mines. Indications are not wanting of the retirement from Cabinet rank at an early date of the Hon. J. McKenzie. In the Legislative Council on Tuesday the Master and Apprentice Bill passed its second reading stage by a majority of one vote. The Land and Income Tax Bill was passed.