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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 9 August 1880, Page 3

The amenities subsisting ib Parliamentary life, may be gathered by the following . — " Mr. Saundew. id defending theMinjstry, called Mr. Seddon a Grey-hound, and the former retorted by calling the member for Cheviot i blood-hound." A Hawke% Bay paper records some of the difficulties in the way of dis* public charity in Napier:— The questions of charitable aid is be« coming a very serious matter, so much co that the Committee has wisely rrsolved to insist upon a certain amount of work being performed daily by indigent persons in receipt,., of rations. There" is 'aTmotion^abroad that at Napier the poor and distressed get first rate treatment and indigent people are actually *ent by, train from places as far as Watpawajgtbat they may share in the good things to be .haj"^ g f w^ Additional telegraphic fire indicators are being erected in Dunedin. Messrs Nelson Bros, .conotempMe erecting near Hastings, Hawk's Say, a gelatine factory. ..-.-. ijL A droll incident occurred jn Ha street at Wellington, the other day. Two Southern members were way-laid by a man who had had two cows killed by the inspector on suspicion of being infec ed with disease. He informtd them that he had petitioned the House , for compensation, and if, all the same to them, he would take the money down there and then. One member said he was very sorry, but be really ' bad not get the sum about him just then. The petitioner admitted the force of the plea, but said he meant to lave the money, and would be willing to receive it from the " bother gent." The latter, however, while recognising the justice of tne demand, also pleaded forma pauperis, and stsonglv advised the claimant to apply direct to the Government. He accepted the suggestion. — Auckland Herald.