PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.
WELLINGTON, September 23. Parliament will be opened by Commission at two o’clock. After the election of Speaker, the House will adjourn till 2.30 on Thursday. At noon on Thursday, the Speaker elect, with his proposer and seconder (Sir George Grey and the Hon. Mr Hall), will wait en the Governor for the formal confirmation of the choice made by the House. At 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, His Excellency the Governor will attend in the chamber of the Legislative Council and deliver the viceregal speech, which it is understood will be much the same as that of last session. It is expected the House will then adjourn until the following Tuesday.
The “ Chronicle ” is authorised to state that the Government have not yet determined when they shall bring the Triennial Parliaments Bill into operation, and that in any case the proposition which they will make will be to bring the Act into force much earlier than at the end of five years.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1746, 24 September 1879, Page 2
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