Stout agreed with the Premier that no alteration should be made in parliamentary papers, and the matter should be referred to the Printing and Debates Committee for investigation. The Electoral Bonniliirles. Members generally warmly supported the Premier’s proposals for the appointment of Major Richardson (Napier] and Dr Giles (Auckland) as unofficial representative Commissioners for the North Island, and cf Dr Hislop (Otago) and ex-Diatrict Judge Weston (Canterbury) for the South Island. It was admitted on all sides that the selec tion was an admirable one, and that for once the question of color had not been introduced. Mr Buick thought that Nelson and Westland ought to have been repre sented on the South Island. The Separation of Husband and Wife. The Summary Separation Bill intro duced into the Legislation Council by the Hon. W. M. Bolt provides for the simplifi cation of the procedure for the separation of married people. Under the measure a stipendiary magistrate shall have power to grant certain separations, and the fees therefrom will be much reduced in amount. ‘ Hansard.’ As the services of the latest additions to the ‘ Hansard ’ staff are to be claimed by the Government all the year round, Mr P. Hyde (secretary to the late Treasurer) has declined the position offered to him on the staff, and will go back to the public service. The latest appointees are, it is understood, to have a few weeks’ holiday at the end of the session, and employment will be found for them iu the public service for the balance of the year, without any increase of salary. The Connell to Adjourn. I hear that the Minister of Education will move this afternoon that the Council on rising to-morrow do,ad journ till Tuesday week. This will be carried, but the Banking Committee will sit next week till the inquiry is com pleted, Tuesday’s Incident still engages attention in the lobbies, and Captain Russell has been pressed by a large number of his own supporters and by the Left Wing to table a question regarding the rumors as to the statement made to Sir M. O’Rorke with respect to the intentions of the Minister of Lands, but the Leader of the Opposition declined to interfere. It is said that Sir M. 