The Wairarapa Daily anxiously inquires —ls the New Parliament to be swamped with lawyers ? If so, what is to become of us all ] The law business must have been a profitable one of late years to enable so many of its members to leave their six and eightpencos and go hunting electors.
The New Zealand Times says :—The total receipts on the railways of the Colony for the four weeks ending 17th September last were L 57,320 7s Id, and for the corresponding period in last year LG0,488 2s Bd. The falling off in revenue has been on the Hurunui-Bluff and the Greymouth line, the latter to the extent of L9sßs 5d only. This line, however, is now the only one in the Colony whereon the twelve monthly average shows that the expenditure per mile exceeds the revenue, the figures being :—Revenue, L 251 10s ; expenditure, LG47 12s 7d. On the Westport line, which for a long time held the position of being the most unprofitable line in the Colony, the posi tion is reversed, the average revenue per mile being LG22 18s, and the expenditure L 307 14s 9d.
The New Zealand Times calls attention to a peculiarity about the Corrupt Prac tices Prevention Act, 1881. It contains no provision as to the precise date of its coming into operation, and in anticipa tion of special proclamation in such re spect candidates may consider themselves fully justified in taking time by the fore lock and securing as many votes as pos sible.
