PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1907, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, Monday.

However quiet the lobbies appear to be to-day, there is considerable Ministerial activity. Cabinet commenced a sitting at nine o'clock this morning, which lasted over four, hours, and there was also another meeting to-night.

~Mt. F. E. Baumes has arrived from Napier. The member for City East has not fully regained his strength after his serious illness, but he shows steady im-

provement. The Hon. W. Tucker, of Gisbome, and the Hon. W. Paul, two of the newlyappointed Legislative Councillors, will respectively move and second the Ad-dress-in-Reply in the tipper Chamber.

Mr. W. R. Morris has been promoted from the position of Controller of Money Orders and Savings Banks and Accountant of the General Post Office to that of Assistant Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, in succession to Mr. Donald Robertson, the new Secretary of the Department. It is understood that .Mr. J. It. H. Ledger, Assist' ant Controller, -will succeed Mr. Morris as Controller and Accountant, and that Mr. H. A. Huggins will fill the former's present positon. Mr. J. Stevenson, chief secretary to the Minister for Lands, has been appointed to the Hansard Staff. Mr. Stevenson is one of the oldest and most popular members on the Ministerial secretarial staff.