PARLIAMENTARY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 279, 6 August 1889, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

The parliamentary parties are pretty milch mixed, and there will have tfo be some agreement on the Representation Bill. ■ We believe it may be foreshadowed in some such tray as the country party accepting an additiofyof 28 per cent in Hew of tlie 25 '[p$' :i oent jubstraction from, thft towns. : The figures are a little differeMtyft nothing go much as. to Justify farther l&s of time end money to 'fight a^; ft it is evident (hat parties wity gwy way as there ii so mnch outside o| tbis one question tio be determined. It is tfot Kkely that the Otago members. wi|l impml the Otago Central by any rash jiptfetting of the Government 9tther-by> a want of eonfidenoe mo* tion or a dissolution. It is oonsidered ftrletdy certain that the reduc-. tion MBf' we. nunibers of members yfjXL pa adhered to, and thus to some 1 dMtrietti especially - our ; own, it; would be a ; .m{ttt*ei <: lor grave consideration whether a continuance of this TftyUamcint could pot be,, until the census had been talten. There ii a j^ibeihiliCy' of the Government feelirig^ejtr wiy in this direction.