WELLINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 3872, 22 July 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

[Bt Telegraph.]

{From our own Correspondent.) Wellington, July 21. Quidnuncs are already counting heads and give the division on the Abolition question as likely to show a majority of between 28 and 30 for the Government. Mr White’s question re the constitution of Committees had reference to the omission of Mr Harrison’s name from all. He has served on most of the Committees for eight years, and the omission looks like revenge for the attacks on Sir J, Vogel in the ‘Grey River Argus,’ but of which Mr Harrison is not the author.

Mr T. L. Shepherd has thrown up the Pollution of Rivers Bill in disgust. A caucus of the goldfields members this morning, called by Messrs Pyke, Harrison, and Curtis, strongly deprecated personal feelings jeopardising the Bill if its application was made more general Hence the decision was arrived at. Mr Shepherd to-day had a fling at Messrs Brown and Pyke and would not proceed further with tho Bill

July 22. The debate on the reply te the address in the Council! as far as it has gone, shows strongly a feeling in favor of total abolition. The hon. Mr Holmes made an alarmist’s speech, d la Waterhouse.

Papers laid on the table to-day show the nett price of the four million loan to be a little over L9019s per cent.