SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. )
Wellington, December 22. Immediately on the breaking up of Par. liament members rushed away to all parts of the compass. —Oliver and Rolleston went South.—Bryce, Atkinson and Whitaker, North, only Hall left.—Sir George Grey left by the Ilinemoa on the previous day for Kawau regardless of the issue of the Public Works Act, or the District Railways purchase.
The general opinion is that Parliament is quite disorganized. New men with new ideas will be to the fore next session. The Young New Zealand party has already melted away. No principles - consequently no strength. It is believed to have been a more devise of Sir George G rev’s to rehabilitate himself by riding into office on the shoulders of the young inexperienced members. De Lrtour, Lundon. Barron, and others regarded merely as tools to bring this about. Reader Wood’s traitorous defection is universally ascribed to Sir George Grey’s influence.
Social scandals of the most fearful de soription are very rife here—Too bad to indicate even-
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Dunstan Times, Issue 923, 26 December 1879, Page 2
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