(Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, to-day. The Banking Bill and the Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill will • be included in the slaughtered innocents. The Premier is still hopeful of inducing Dr Giles to serve on the Police Commission. The Premier is determined to make -on endeavor to place the Old Age Pension Bill ou the statute book, and to-night's sitting will be taken up in discussing the second reading of the measure. That the Pomahaka settlers are in dis tressed circumstances is shown by a petition presented to the House yesterday by the member for Clutha. The petitioners allege that their experience of the land, extending for the most part- over three and a half years, is that its capabilities are not sufficient to enable them to pay rent and live j that they have expended their capital in improving their holdings ; that from returns received they are forced to the conclusion that the rents are too high, and that they are forced to the forfeiture of their holdings and conse quent loss of their hard earned savings. They therefore petitiou the House for assis. auce.
THE POVERTY BAY? HERALD. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1897.
