The Factories Act Amendment Bill, intro duced by the Government, provides that in order to check what is commonly known as the “ sweating evil,” in cases where tho occupier of a factory or work-room where textile goods are manufactured, gives out work or issues material for tho purpose of being made up, it shall not bo lawful for any such person to sublet such work, whether by way of piece-work or otherwise, nor to in any way do any such work except on his own premises, and by himself or by his own work-people, to whom he himself pays wages therefor. The maximum penalty for a breach of this provision is JSIO, and if an occupier knowingly permits any such breach to be committed, he is liable to a penalty of £6O. In order to check the risk of disease being spread by infection or contagion, the measure provides that goods must not bo manufactured or made up or received for such a purpose in any factory, workroom or dwellinghouso where there resides any person suffering from any infectious or contagious disorder, or where any such person has so resided during tho previous 14 days unless the house and materials therein have been disinfected, and any goods found in any such place may be seized, removed and disinfectcdat tho expense of the owner, or a Justice of tho Peace may cause them to be destroyed. Further, if any person employed in a factory-'or work room does any work for such factory or work room elsewhere than in tho same tho occupier is liable to a penalty of i)10, and tho person who decs such work to a penalty of £5 The Law Practitioners and Now Zealand Law Societies Act Amendment Bill, intro duced into tho Legislative Council by tho Minister of Education, proposes to re move the existing anomaly whereby solicitors of seven years, though quali fied for tho position of Supremo Court Judge, are not qualified to practice as bar risters. On payment of a foe of £6 5s any solicitor who has been in active practice for seven years shall bo entitled to bo admitted and enrolled as a barrister of the Supremo Court. 