POLITICAL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3732, 2 July 1883, Page 3

POLITICAL NEWS.

[by telegraph.]

[froji our own correspondent.] Wellington, This day

Shuffling a pack of cards to see how many possible combinations you can make is but child's play compared with trying to arrange tho present House of Representatives into classes. Here the House has been sitting a fortnight, and nothing has as vet been done since the Financial Statement has been printed—l beg pardon, read, but there wo stop. Of course the Opposition arc blamed by the Government, and the Opposition as a'party is powerless because individuals who object to Sir G. Grey will not follow him to oust the present Ministry, and to bring back that gentleman. This was given utterance to in the House last week._ Now, that bugbear has no existence; it is more than questionable if Sir George Grey desires power. He expresses himself quite the contrary, but would Sir George Grey in a strong Ministry be half so troublesome as Sir George Grey the fides achates of a weak Ministry. Last Monday evening and each following Monday Parliament will meet on that day, and business is going to be pushed on wonderfully. We shall sec. On Tuesday the House will be r \t for the first time with electricity, which is expected, through giving no heat, to do away with all acrimony in debate. That long-deferred question as to increased accommodation at the Napier railway station will come on on Wednesday. On that date Mr Barron is going to move that any member absent during the last ten days of "the session shall forfeit live guineas per diem.