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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 46, 6 October 1887, Page 2

Latest Political

(PER UNITED PRESS 4SSOCIAriOW.) Wblmngton/ October 5. ;

Major Atkinson to-day is closeted - with such members of the Opposition; ■ as are here, but the proceedings are " private. pHe will make a statements in the House to-morrow, and ask for an adjournment till 7.30 on Tuesday. 7 He states. that the replies ;^e. has received from various members of the party with whom he has communicated : aire extremely satisfactory, and tho Opposition fully approve df the coursie aidopted of calling a meeting for consultation kefore anything definite ia dene. ____ I ___^__________ (Chronicle Correspondent.) Wellington, October 5. Most probably the outcome is the acceptance of the Premiership by Mr John HaU, with new blood from the} " young j dogs' party.". Of /these.Messrs Scobie McKenzie, Menteath,, Bruce, Beetham, and Fisher are the. most likely to be successful. s Major Atkinson will make a statetement to the -House to-morrow, but ■ nothing definite will take place until Tuesday next. It is understood that -Sir Robert Stout and Mr Ballance contradict the. report that any ill-feeling exists between the Colonial Treasurer and s themselves. ..-.--

To-day's Times says .—Absolutely ! nothing has yet been done j by Major } Atkinson in the direction of forming a . Government tiiou^ho^ppears to baU confident[of t J^. ability to^ doy so 7 , Naturally, rumor is Jalreadj busy with the new mon arelfreely mentioned aa probable' members of it. It seems ta be generally conceded that Captain - Russell, .the member for Hawkes Bay/ will W'ii^ey^ihr the portfolio 1 of Native Affairs, and possibly Defence* Mr Gebrge Beethaip is, also cbiisidered - certain to be inoluded, his claims' upon tiie party, having been strongly urged-. The Auckland representative witt pro. bably be Mr Mlte&elsoh, whose suo* cess as Minister for Publio Works. is* , the last Atkinson Administration ie still fresh in the memory. In Otago there are three gentlemen with strong claims upon the suffrages of the party namely, Mr Sophie Mackenzie, Mr G. F. Riohardson, and Mr Fergus. There . will probably be vaiy grwt difficulty ' in deoiding between the tluree, for "Mr Fergus has a good chum on tho ground of long service, while the other gentlemen were distinguished members of the last Parliament. Pro* bably Mr Mackenzie wiU be the chosen one. . There will be a difficulty ., oil. course, if things turn out as we anticipate, in selecting a Canterbury representative in the Cabinet,

A worm has been found in Germany .which devours iron, and steel rail*. ( .It carries t«o glands filled with a corrosive secretion, which >t ejects, corroding the** irbn/and rendering it soft and spongy, g& that it can be devoured. ■-■'■ -•■•; y