POLITICAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1254, 3 June 1886, Page 2

POLITICAL NEWS.

[BY OUB .SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

WELLINGTON, Juno 2,

There is scarcely any gossip going on in political circles, and hardly any news worth sending. It is on all hands agreed that so far the session is the most peculiar one ever known, there being an almost universal spirit of Iniwz fah'c. Nobody, indeed, seems to care about anything very much, and there is an entire absence of party enthusiasm or excitement of any sort. The financial debate, which opened last evening, was the poorest thing of the kind for years past, and it is not likely that on its resumption this evening it will exhibit any change of tone, unless, indeed, somebody winds up with a surprise motion. There is, I thiuk, a probability of this. All the afternoon was spent in answering [questions of no general interest, and in a match against time by hon. members, who talked out a motion of Dr Newman’s so as to prevent the Pacific Islands question, which was next on the Order Paper, from coming up for discussion. The Hon. Mr Reynolds has been called to the Executive Council, and will be sworn in to-morrow.

Mr Montgomery has moved a resolution calling upon the Government to take back the Estimates and reduce the departmental expenditure by seventy-live thousand pounds. The Premier has accepted this as a motion of want-of-confidenco, and is now speaking.