PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1774, 27 October 1879, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

[By Telegraph.] WELLINGTON, October 25."“ The speeches from Sir George Grey r e down to Mr Shrimrki’s, were perfectly frantic with rage, and the wildest charges were brought against everyone whose action had crossed their path. After Sir George and his satellites had talked an immense deal of indignation, denouncing Mr Hall as the perpetrator of the foulest piece of corruption that had ever disgraced a colonial Premier, Mr Reader Wood coolly informed the House that he had never spoken to Mr Hall on the subject, but that Sir George Grey had told him that he would make a bargain with Mr Macandrew, and give Mr Wood the office of Colonial Treasurer, and Mr Macandrew had asked him to be Premier. Mr Wood and his Auckland colleagues have nothing to conceal in the stipulations they made as to public questions, and are singularly free from any suspicion of private advantage ; but the foul vituperations heaped on them by the camp they have left will open their eyes to the generous treatment that may bo expected towards those who thwart the expectations of the great Liberal party. The loss of temper and judgment was made all the more complete by the decision of the Election Committee against the return of Sir George Grey. The party had confidently calculated on being able to manage Mr Allwright by Sir George Grey’s great personal attention to him, but he proved to ba made of sterner stuff than had been expected. Sir George Grey’s whip, Mr J. O. Brown, has served,Mr Colbeck with a writ for £IOOO for sitting for Marsden whilst having some contract under Government. The parties now suing him are the same who advised him that he might safely take his seat, when hia vote was expected to be in their favor. October 26. The political situation is. unchanged. Th# Opposition hope that some Otago members will desert the Government, hut so far there is no sign. It was proposed that a meeting of Otago members should be held on Saturday, but none was held. There is every probability that other Auckland members will join the Ministerialists. Mr Richardson will take his seat on Tuesday. The decision of the committee regarding his election caused the utmost satisfaction in Wellington.