PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1901, 25 July 1888, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

(P3R PRESS ASSOCIATION,) Wellington, Jaly 25. The Speaker of the House announced yesterday afternoon that he bad received from the Executive vlcePreaident of the Melbourne Exhibition the following telegram ; — " Arrangements for opening ceremony era vow being completed, and the Commissioner will feel obliged if you will consent to be m the offi lal procession t / accompaay bis Excellency the Governor and Governors of the other colonies up the grand avenue to the dais." The Speaker said that he should reply that he had intended to ba present at the opening ceremony, but as Parliament would be In session he regretted that he should not be able to do so.

It Is now estimated that the sesision will last fully another month, even assuming that the Electoral, and Civil Sefvlce Reform, and Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bills are dropped.

Meisrn Maoartbur and the members supporting his Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill, are satisfied with the promise they have received from Government to bring m a Bill next session to deal with the whole question of Hospital and Charitable Aid, as even If it doeß not provide for aa tor •tile subdlvls'on of districts, they will be strong enough m committee to bring m the neoeßsary amendments to give effect to this course, and the Bill wonld not be so liable to obstrnc

tion as a privatemembers Bill. The probability is that eventually provltions will be made for differential rating for town and conntry.

Rumors of a no-confidence motlcn are Htill rife bat it Is very d ffioult te find their louroe. The Freetraders deDy point blaDk that they have anything of the sort m view, and Mr Seddon and the leading members of the Opposition side also state that they have nothing m contemplation at present; So far as I can jadge nothing m the way of a direct motion will be moved, and whatever combination

there may ' be beetwoen the Opposition and Freetraders will be on coma aids Issue as a straightforward motion woald not be carried.

It is stated by the Government party

that the lengthy debate which took place m Committee last night on tbe Education vote is the first instalment of the atonewalliDg which will take place on the Crown and Native Lands Bating Bill, and that the sap^e course will ba adopted oa all other measures 1i 1 the Bill ib withdrawn. Ag the Bill is an essential part of the Government finance, however, it is not anticipated that this will bo done, and m consequence there is no Baying when the session will come to an end.