POLITICAL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3750, 23 July 1883, Page 2

POLITICAL NEWS.

[by teleorami.]

[feom our own cohkespondent.] Wellington, This day. The Ministerial side now consider that they have made a mistake by allowing the House to adjourn on Saturday morning whereas, if they bad sat till midnight, most of tho Estimates would have been passed, and the session would havo been curtailed by at lest a fortnight, so it is quite evident that the Opposition will have to avoid the stonewalling tactics for the future, or it will be the worse for them. The idea that the Opposition proposed reducing the salaries of the Civil Service is scouted on all hands What they say is, not that the Civil Service is too highly paid, but. that the service is overmanned. There can be no question but that the service is not too highly paid it being the worst paid service of all the Australian colonies. As for the second assertion, that it is overmanned, I think there cannot be much doubt on that point The Telegraph and Postal officials arc not nearly well enough paid now, and concerning tho operators, considering the arduous and confidential nature of their duties an increase is much more necessary than any cutting down. J

The two local papers here are havino- a nice set to on the Government Insurance' Department. Of caurse the Times can Bee no fault in the administration. Of course tho pay of the cauvasscrs is the wrong pointto attack, as that is simply payment by results, and as tho rate islowor than what is paid by other offices thore can be no cause of quarrel there.

Those tumorous correspondents have been having a high time of it lately. During the last ten days they rumoured five of the Ministry out of existence. This they followed tip by the retiring in their rumors of threo of tho Judges, the latter giving up because their salaries aro to ho increased by a Government Bill. This was next followed by a member suffering from ill-health, it was rumoured, who would shortly resignperhaps the most truthful of the series But what a falling- off is there. The tale of the fellow who saw 500 cats on his roof and by gradual stages came down to two cats, to whose presence he would swear, the one being his own and tho other his next door neighbor's, is nothing to their last ten days work.

The business at the House this evening is not of_ any important kind, and unless something unforeseen crops up the sitting should bo a short one.