POLITICAL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3729, 28 June 1883, Page 3

POLITICAL NEWS.

[BY TELEOEAPn.]

[FROM Otm OWN COEIIESFONDENT.] Wellington, This day. Tho attendarce in the galleries for a Budget night was not up to the usual I average. Neither was there the usual amount of interest taken by those present, partly because nothing sensational was anticipated. The speech went flat, and the general verdict seems to be that it was disappointing in the extreme. Only once was any disposition shown to merriment, and that was when Major Atkinson announced that a bill for compulsory insurance would be laid on the table, but not with the intention of asking the House to read it a second I time. This was repeated three times. The large surplus of last year has been wiped out all but £35,000, and to prevent a deficit of £50,000 at the end of this year additional taxation is to be introduced. The Treasurer is a sanguine man. I have no doubt whatever that the weak point in his estimates will be found in his Customsjg estimates, whei - e he anticipates £25,000 more than he did last year admitted that last year's imports excessive to the extent of a therefore the natural deduction "hat this year there would be a mports and Customs j-oods in bond are not wholesale men throughout he enormous stocks ill iinow they push ;ailers for which )een received and ire larger than o that I do natc will ays that thir^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^J ■ " Vales^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H