PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2017, 11 August 1880, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

[By Telegraph.) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, August 10. Although the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Bill and Electric Telegraph Amendment Bills were not expressly mentioned by the Premier yesterday, I am in a position to state that these two Bills are intended to be included in the list of measures which the Government will go on with. The Charitable Institutions Bill is classed among the indispensable financial Bills, as if it were not passed Government would have to ask for a very large vote to keen the various Hospitals and other institutions even in bare existence, local bodies having repudiated the responsibility now that subsidies are withdrawn. It is probable, however, that the Bill will meet with considerable opposition. _ A meeting of the Etocutive Council was held at Government House at noon to-day, the Governor presiding. The business was of the usual routine character. In the House this afternoon Mr Seddon gave notice to ask whether the Government will introduce a Bill this session to reduce the salaries of future Governors. The only fresh news received by the Government as to Native affairs is that two more Native fencers were arrested yesterday. The Hinemoa will probably come to Wellington for further instructions, instead of returning direct to Now Plymouth. I do not believe that there is the slightest probability of the Representation Bill going any farther this session, unless some extraordinary change comes over members’ habits. Waste of time is as rampant as ever, and I do not see how Ministers can possibly get through even their essential financial Bills in another month. Everybody is intensely weary of the session, and gossip is quite dead, ex? cepting that there is constant lamentation and much empty threatening about the proposed distribution of public works, as propounded in Mr Oliver’s statement, which seems to please nobody, as easily might be expected, seeing that there is next to nothing to spend. Further papers in reference to the five million loan have been laid on the table. Among the payments in the loan agents’ accounts are the following:—Commission at half per cent, on five millions to the Bank of England, £25,000 ; commission at a quarter per cent, on £4,748,000, allowed to the brokers by the Bank of England, £11,781; commission at one eighth per cent, to the Crown agents’ department, £6250; commission at one eighth per cent, on five millions to Sir P. Julyan, £6250 ; Messrs J. and A. Scrimgeour, for services rendered in advising and assisting in matters connected with the loan and quotation on the Stock Exchange, £ISOO.