PARLIAMENTARY

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 530, 12 August 1881, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY

("FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Wellington, August 11

The Akaroa High School Bill was read a second time to-day with slight opposition, principally on the ground that the remaining portion of the reserves should be allotod to Akaroa, Rangiura, and Waimate, instead of to the first two places. There is an opposition being organised against the Redistribution of Seats Bill. The Nelson members object because the Provincial District will lose three members. The Auckland members wish the Maoris resident in the district to be reckoned as part of the population. Some of the Wellington members wish this also, and as this opposition may be increased in number by members who object to the manner in which their electoral districts have been arranged, the majority for the second reading of the Bill will probably be small. The Canterbury and Otago members will give up their individual crotchets and vote for the second reading of the Bill.

The Public Works Estimates are not yet in the hands of members, but are promised to be distributed on Monday, There will be a financial debate afterwards and possibly a resolution moved, but there is a general feeling among the Canterbury and Otngo members now in Opposition to the Government that the Redistribution of Seats Bill is so important that anything which would endanger the passing of that measure is to be deprcceatcd. Members have not yet m.:iu<; up their \iih\ils as to the merits of the Public "Work;; [Statement, nor will tlicy until they too the estimates. Un- ! Ui i,!ii'si- i-.'.-wdL the ivs'.i'jiuit iv}ij)ro{>riated I !i;i-ii;e v:i.-."i''. , u.s Tu-ho Vvoilc: cnniiot bo known.