LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 888, 5 August 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[special to kumaba times.] Wellington, August 5. It is almost certain that Parliament will be prorogued this week. The elections will take [dace in September. Sir G. Grey refuses to name the date when Parliament will assemble. Mr Barton spared the House last night, but is expected to talk for hours to-day. I; is string of resolutions about the J ",dge.-; contan --d smb 4 ' ' ' *' “thi-

guage that the Speaker would not allow them to be published in the Order Papef. Members are leaving daily to canvass their districts, Messrs Sheehan and WbitakePa negotations, as to what business shall be proceeded with, will conclude this morning. Several slight shocks of earthquake occurred this morning. [press agency.] Wellington, August 4. Mr Seymour Tborne George will not offer himself for for Hokitika. He has received requisitions from Rodney and Marsden, and will elect to stand for one or the other. Government and the Opposition have agreed that only the Loan Bill and supply should be brought forward. Sir G. Grey stands otit for four months* supply, bat the Opposition adhere to three months. It is understood that Sir G. Grey is not sopported in this by his other colleagues. The elections are to take place during the first week iti September. Parliament re-assembles in the third week of September. August 5, The principal business before the House last evenirtg was the Loan Bill, which was read a second time and ordered to be committed to-day. The Premier Would not name ally particular date for the elections or the reassembling of the new Parliament, but promised to avoid all unnecessary delay. He trusted there would never be an end to the borx’owing policy of New Zealand. When the works now in hand were completed, they would be enough for seven or eight millions of people, who would have to pay the loans now incurred. Members of the House of Representatives are getting up a requisition* signed exclusively by themselves, to induce Mt Stontto reconsider his determination, and allow himself to be nominated in the forthcoming elections.