POLITICAL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3778, 24 August 1883, Page 3

POLITICAL NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH. J

[eeou our oavn correspondent.] Wellington*, This day

Ycstorda v Avas rather a red-letter sort of a day. So" that Mr M. W. Green's bill might not proceed, it avus resolved that there should bo a number of questions, and thus help to get tho Otago Harbor Bill hung up. What Avith reports and such like the questions avc re not. finished When the dinner adjournment had to be made. In the evening it was intended to bring on tho private bills. This Avas a GoA*ornment stroke to aid Mr Green. Turning your coat pays apparently, as every facility is given by the Ministry to this gentleman, much more than they usually record to a consistent and staunch supporter. Verily renegades have their reward. A nice little comedy avus rehearsed beforehand. Of course'openly the Otago members dare not oppose the bill. That could not be done, so it Avas arranged that Mr Sheehan should make a long "spcct.li against tho motion to bring up private bills,~and then Mr Fish Avould reply to him at great length. The conspirators did not keep tho understandingclose enough, for it soon leaked out, but chance came to their assistance. The Post had published an account of the Daryaville | committee proceedings that Avas too near the truth to be palatable. Of course this Avas eagerly seized upon for an exhaustive debate, with the result that the consideration of the subject Avas left over till to-day. Tho object of killing a good deal of time had been achieved, but still not sufficient to servo tho purpose, so that the comedy which had been so Avell rehearsed, and Avhicli I have indicated, Avas enacted to a sympathetic audience Avho kneAv all the points. In the Council, strangely enough, there Avas an evening sitting, and there, strangely enough, the debate was on the Otago Harbor Bill. It Avas extremely lively on three different occasions. Two members Avere addressing the House at the same time, repeatedly members were called to order, contradictions Avcro freely given, warmth displayed, and interruptions Averc numerous. As one hon. member remarked, it avus the liveliest night he had ever seen in tho Council, and very nearly equal to an oyster supper. Progress is apparently not yet- the order of the day.