POLITICAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 13, 13 June 1885, Page 3

POLITICAL NEWS.

I • It ia a curious and almost unprecedented rircumsUoce that not a single peiiiion was presented to Parliament at its first sitting on Thursday, Usually there ia a perfect sheaf of the.se douu incuts presented to the Speaker wiicu Parliament meets. Most of the Northern membern seem to he exceedingly hitter against thn Native L-ituls Disposition Bill, and tli<-y vow w»r to the knife not only against thw measure, but also against ils author and sponsor, the Native Minister, upon whom Ihty mean to mak« a vigorous attack. There is no douht that there will he a despurate struggle over this Bill, and it is hard to say what the re* suit may he.— Wellington paper. It is understood that, should no obstacle be interposed by any amendment being inured to the Address in-Reply, the Colonial Treasurer vriM bring down his Financial Statement at a very early period of the session— probably within the next fortnight and possibly on Tuesday week. Its financial proposals hay«« linen filial^' a»r<-ed to m Cabinet, ami we believe that the Budget, itself is quite rvady to bo brought down at auy tiin.n. The precise nature of tho proposals is, for obvious reasons, ke;it strictly tfeer-t nntil the delivery of the Statement, but we understand that numerous and extensive changes m the Customs tariff will be made, also an alteration m tho Property tax and other (is ;al modifications 'In the House of Representatives on Thursday leave was giveu to introduce the following Bills': — Friday, Inne 12.— Hon. Mr Stout, the Wellington Public Street Closing Bill, the Canterbury and Otago Mairiacs Bill, the Adipiiu'sti-atiou Act, 1879, Atnendment Bill, tlio Mercantile Lanr Act, 1880, Amendment Bill, '•'« Patents Act,lßß3, Amcndmniit Bill ; Ron. Sir J. Yogel, a Bill to amend the Lawn relating to Fin; and Marine Insurance Companies, and Foreign Companies, a bill relating td (he Encouragement of Fisheries ia New- Zealand (m Commit lev,) a Bill rul:tling to the (Establishment of Stute Forests m New Zealand (m Committee,) The Inventors Protection Bill ; Sir George Grey, a Bill to abolish Plurality ot Voting at the Election of Meinb-ra for the House of Uejirenentatives ; Mr Holmes, a Bill changing the trusts of the Christchurch Market Reserves, a Bill to validate Christchurcb Municipal Council Public Works Loan ; SirG. Grey, a Bill to regulatc^thu 'Admission of Persons to practice m the Courts of L »w, a Bill to provide facilities for the Enforcement of judgments recovered " iv Courts of Inferior Jurisdiction.

{F.VITED PR-8S ASSOCIATION.) New Plymouth, Wednesday. Mr Samuel, M.H.R., leaves for Wellington by the steamer to-day. He has had a presentation of a case o£ apples from To Whiti, that chief forwarding them as a proof of goodwill. Major Atkinson addressed a very large large meeting here last night. He went over much the same ground as at previous meetings, but with, reference to immigration lie said he regretted that the system of nominated immigrants had ! beon suspended, and thought it. a great mistake. He was quite prepared to support a vote for that purpose, but doubted ; whether it would be wise to go further, tie thought that the direct steamer.-} were good advertising mediums, and if they pould be subsidised so as to get the passage money reduced to about the same amount as a passage from England to America they would soon divert the stream of immigration to this Colony. A .unanimous vote of confidence was car.fied. ,