TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1573, 13 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OCR OWN CORttEHPONPEXT. ) Wellington, 11. Matters political in the House since Ministers pocketed all their proposals | mder the tariff and Local Bodies j finance Bill have boni doll and unin- i erestingi The Public Works Statement is iow apec#latively looked forward tn. ?he Native Minister's stntenif?ut on Native Affairs will also form a peg for he Opposition to resume their worry--3g tactics. The House received with cheers the nnouncement of Mr Joseph Ivess' Bturn for Wakanai < Government have officially notified ' aving reofivcd a despatch from the 1

j Government of New South Wales, exI pressing that Colony's grateful apreciaj tiun and participation in the Address 1 made by New Zealand to the Queen. The Divorce and Matrimonial Cases , Bills have passed their second reading. In the, House yesterday O'Conor asked the Minister of Justice why the salary of the Warden and Magistrate for Duller and Reefto'n districts-had V>cen exceptionally reduced, and received a reply that the Warden came from Okarito, and had received an increased salary, including free house, equal to £400 per annum. In answer to the same gentleman the Minister of Works said there were two other dangerous rivers between Nelson and Gtey month, besides the Buller, near Lyell, which required bridgm?, ajK j t na t the Government would endeavor to bridge one of them during the next year. There were no funds available for the work at present. 1 The school Committees Election Bill, which chants the date of ele«* tions from January" ; to the fourth Monday in April, ami abolishes the j cumulative voting, passed tbo second reading. When the Employment of Females and Other? Act Amendment Bill was under consideration in Committee the Premier introduced a new clause pro« (uniting the employment of barmaids in hotels after 6 p.m. The proposal met with a vigorous opposition, and during the discussion remarks of an intensely %oi using character were made. Several members related their personal experiences pro and ron. B«van. member for Ilokitika, spoke against thy clause, based on 25 years experience of barmaids in Victoria and on the West Coast. He favored a couple of barmaids being employed in Bellamy's, and he would place the handsomest in the tea roools, where her influence would attract a larger number of'hou. numbers. He contended that barmaids tended to elevate the tone of our hotels, and it would be much better if tli* Government would legislate in the direction -of the social, evil than in the direction of bai> maids. Hatch, member for Invercargill, had special views on the matter. H« considered the Good Templars ought. ' to find husl.ands for the barmaids.' He had travelled aboni the country a great deal and probably knew as much abont barmaids as anyone else. Joyce, fr&n Sou^hianjf, asked why th» clause provided thatthe wife or daughter of a licensee Gould serve in the bar. Why was a monopoly of the demoralisation of young m fen to be given to the wives. and daughters of puMicans. It was said that they coifld have male bar attendants. Weil, they had male at endants at Bellamy's, and would anyone deny that a great deal of whiskey was drunk there. , Honbs, Bay of Islands, was not so concerned for the barmnids as for the young men who were openly called 11 mashers," aye, and some of the old sinners. Hnrsthoupe, Motr.eka, failed to un i derstand whetlrer the Premier was acting in the interests of morality or of the, barmaids. The Premier said there were no barmaids, in some parts of America, but when he (Hursthouse) was in that country there were numbers of handsome looking young ladies, who carried cock -tails round, and amused visitors, He vmitui-fd to say that a large number of persons who signed the requisition to the House for prohi bition of barmaids were "jealous wives and children underage." Vincent Pyke, Dunstan, said that in the first place man said "The woman gave to me aud I did eat," and to-day j it was " the woman gave to me and I did drink." He argued that barmaids were us ijood as factory girls, and as i moral ;itid as respectable &s any other [class. f Tiio question came to a division at 1 1 30 p.m., and the clause wa3 rejected ! by 40 tn 24. The Houso then adjourned till Tuesday. • CHmSTCHURCH 11. The Canterbury District Foresters advocate the amendment of the Friendly Societies Act so as to make it compulsory on all societies having a central body to become branches »f that body. It was also decided to forward circulars to alfr Foresters j Courts in the Colony, pointing out the ! desirability of a uniform scale of \ jiayments and benefits, DUNEDITJ, 11. \ The Plieoenix Company at Skippers, have crnsue.d 330 tons of retorted gold from 200 tons of stone, Mr Donald Reid, barrister, ia an* nounced as a candidate Jpr Bruce. iNVBRCAROIIi, 10. The Soutblnnd County Council todfty resolved to urge on the Governmwit the desirability of leaving the method of dtwtfcjg County Cbairtutjn '

unaltered, also of continuing the audit by the Government officials. BALCLCTIfA, 10. At a special meeting of the Clutha County Council to-day to consider the proposed local Government measures the following resolutions .were passed: (1) That the only prospect of insuring to local bodies an assured finance lies in relieving their rateable property from Colonial taxation, 80 that in future property may be free to contribute as much as it can afford by way of rates for local purposes; (2; That the present method of auditing, also for electing County Chairman is the best, and the proposed change would tend to inefficiency in the administration, and increased expense, and that no alterations in County Acts are desireable nntil the wishes of the ratepayers have Wen more fully ascertained. Auckland, 10. Mr Napier does not intend to apply for a writ of Habeas Corpus in the St. Louis murder case, and Maxwell will therefore be sent back to America in the next mail steamer. Detectives are now preparing the necessary formalities.