POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2619, 29 August 1882, Page 3

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

[By. TaraaßAPH.]

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WELLINGTON, August 28. Tho resumption of nominated immigration ■eems to be very popular, judging from the way in which nominations are pouring m. No fewer than 864 were sent home by the last week's mail. Of these, the largest number were from Canterbury, whioh sent 400, Weilington 149, Inveroargill 97, Dune dm 93, Auckland 86, Hawke', Bay 86, Nelson. Marlborough and Westland 16. Of the total 864 nominations, 143 ware for single men, 367 for single women, and 384 members of families. The passage money which mußt be paid by those making the nominations is £5 for married men under forty-five, and for single men under thirty five plus £1 for kit; married women under forty-five, single women under thirty-five and widows without children under thirty-five, free; the only charges being £1 for ship's kit. As many as three children between the ages of twelve months and twelve years in the same family oan be taken out free, but 104 will be oharged

for outfit of eaoh child. The gold fields committee have rooommended that the Drainage of Mines BUI be allowed to proceed in its present form, and that the Government be recommended to facilitate the speedy passage of the mil through the House. The Land Bill was set down first on today's Order Paper, and it was exrected to be the battle ground for another s t«N u «8 le . both on recommittal and on the inird reading, but, contrary to anticipation, all went with surprising smoothness, and tho Bill was read a third time and passod. It is not yet known what the Legislative Council will do with it, but the general impression is that it will get through by a narrow majority. After advanoing some unopposed "machinery bills' a stage, the House then settled down in earnest to the direot steam serviee resolutions, moved by the PostmasterGeneral, whioh were carried on division by large majorities. The " £40,000 a year "one has however not yet been reached, and is likely to elicit some Btormy differences ot opinion, but will probably pass intact, unless Mr Coster's £30,000 offer on behalf of tho New Zaaland Shipping Committee induces the House to reduoe the subsidy to that sum. It is rumored to-night that Mr Danald Reid of Otago h*a been atked to be one of the Royal Commission on the South Island main trunk railway route, and that if he is unable to act, as it is feared, owing to private business engagements there, that Mr Henry Clark of Tokomairiro may be invited instead. The general opinion is that either would be a very good man. Nothing has officially transpired so far. The Amnesty Bill, of whioh Mr Bryce gave notice to-day, will not apply specifically to Wetere or any other particular individuals, but will give general power to the Governor to proolaim an amnesty in such cases as it may seem to be advisable. The Local Government Bills, viz., Boad Boards, Boads and Bridges Construction, Counties Amendment, Kiting, and Crown and Native Lands Bating Bills will be prooeeded with tomorrow, and it is expected that most of them will go through, if not all. With referenoe to the names in connection with the South Island Railway Commission it must be distinctly understood that they aro not given on any official authority.