PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 807, 5 October 1877, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

—o—(Condensed from our Exchanges.) Wellington, Sept. 24. The Native land Sales Suspension Bill stands at tho bottom of to-day's Order Paper. Votes are being begged for it in tho Lower (louse, on tho private assurance that H will be effidually disposed of in the

Council. In the face of Mr Murray's amendment, Government cannot withdraw the Bill, and they fear being defeated on it. Mr James Maokay has arrived here, and says the feeling amongst Natives in the North, and amongst the whites also, is very much against the Bill. There is some Standing Order difficulty about Mr Larnach bringing his Waka Maori vote of censure on, owing to the long ■standing motion by Mr Rees on tho same subject, which is still on the Order Paper. The Whole afternoon has been spent in Committee on the boundaries of education districts. A great number of amendments were proposed, but tho only one carried was Mr Sheehan’s, to have Cook County included in tho Auckland district. The division on this WES first announced as 29 to 28, but on tho Clerk afterwards adding up tho latter lists, it Was found tho votes were 29 on each side.. Mr O’Eorke, therefore, gave his casting vote for Cook County remaining as it has always been—a part of Auckland. September 26th. The tug of war has come at last. To-day, after questions were answered, all motions down to Mr Rees’s relating to the Waka Maori were postponed, and Mr Rees’s was then discharged. Mr Larnach then gave notice of his, which was instantly accepted by the Hon. Mr Whitaker as a vote of want of confidence, and the House adjourned till to-morrow,‘When it will coine on and possibly last several days. The result is very doubtful. There are five, or perhaps six, votes doubtful, and both sides will bid high for these. September 27th. In the Legislative Council to-day, Tho Deceased Wife’s Sister Matria'go Bill was thrown out by a majority of nine. Ayes, 8 ; Noes, 17. The Hons. D. Pollen, Robinson, Fraser, Bonar, and Bell voted against the Bill. Messrs Chamberlain and Mantell replied in favor of the Bill. In tho House of Representatives Mr Larnach spoke briefly and rather hesitatingly in moving his Want of Confidence motion today. Before beginning, the Speaker asked whether the the House wished the limits of debate confined strictly to the motion, or whether the usual latitude of a Want of Confidence motion was 'to be allowed. Mr Larnach said he and his party wished the debate confined simply to the one question. Major Atkinson said' Government desired the debate tohave the widest possible limits. Mr Sheehan said his side had plenty of other subjects to discuss in the proper time, but would now confine the nr; sc Tver to the one. M r Whitaker’s speech was weak and rambling—not at all a good one. Mr Lusk answered him very effectively. The debate is not likely to be a long Che. There is some talk of confining it to five speakers on each side, and taking a division to-nigbt. Tho general opinion is Government will have a majority of two, or perhaps three, on this question, but that it will be followed up by other motions, which will result in their defeat. September 28. It is now admitted by the Opposition that the Government will have for certain a majority of three or four when tho division takes place on Mr Larnach’s motion. The debate on the motion was damaged last night owing to the Government putting up their small fry to speak. Mr Wakefield, for the Opposition, made an effective speech, but unfortunately, by a slip of the tongue alluded to some natives who had petitioned for a continuance of the Waka Maori, as’a few flirty Maoris. Mr Stafford and other members said the allusion was to the Maori members of the House, and there was much righteous indignation. Mr Wakefield, in a most gentlemanly manlier, denied having made any reference to the Maori members of the House, and withdrew the expression in a most graceful and gentlemanly manner. Mr Travers also made an effective speech against the Government. The Opposition ccnsidcr their chance of ousting the Ministry this session is hopeless, and there is a talk of adopting the Stonewall policy, and compelling a dissolution. Sir George Grey says hfe is prepared to sit till Christmas, if necessary. There is no 'doubt whatever that Mr Pyke’s telegram as to the Hon. Geo. M‘Lean’s action re Strath Taieri railway is strictly and literally true. September 29. The No' Confidence debate was continued to-day until tho House rose. September 30. The debate was agaifi resumed and further adjourned. There is considerable talk as to members of the House of Representatives being disqualified. The following names are mentioned as likely to come under the Disqualification Act: —Messrs Larnach, Bastings, Reynolds, Whitaker, Lusk, and Burns. A necklace that was last seen on the neck of a charming lady at Strauss’s Concerts, in Paris, was the object of universal admiration. Still, very few persons there, says a Parisian writer, knew the mystery attaching to that very necklace. Some time kgo a gentleman took tho necklace to the late Mr Moiana asking him to buy it, and to substitute false diamonds in their place. “ His wife,” ho said, “ would hover know tho difference.” Mr Moiana, who had known the wife from childhood, Mid who who was a friend of her family, asked 24 hours to reflect before concluding the bargain. in that time he went and told tho story to the lady's grandmother who gave Moiana L20()0 to give the husband, telling him to give back tho real necklace, blit not to mention the truth. This was done. Sorte months later it was the wife who took the necklace to Moiana, asking him to substitute false diamonds in the place of tho real ones. “My husband Will never know tho difference," slid said. Again a visit to tho grandmother, who againgavo Moiana L2OOO to keep the diamonds in the family ; and as both husband and wifo still think that the diamonds are false, there is no fear of the necklace being resold,