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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 192, 15 August 1877, Page 4

The following was telegraphed- to , the Auckland Star by its W ellin .too, correspondent on Saturday last:— The scene in the House yesterday afternoon was a moat extraordinary one. The ! Government showed a humiliation anxiety to cling to the sweets of office. The whole secret of the scene ia that! the Government has thearrangeinentof the Order Paper on Government days, ; and.being pressed by its supporters before: the House, met to T day, and pa!ced:thsj Native Lands Court Bill first amongst! tbe orders of J.O day. Just before' the I House met, the Government consulted: their whips, and learned that they were : I in a mioority. Therefor^, 7 thread of ! shewing fight; they determined 1 W eat j the leek, ; and the Premier, asked -fdr an ■ adjournment until Tuesday, in order to ; bf iug pressure to bear upon waverers. i It is understood that many members of i the Opposition were cilled into the; sweating room in, jthe" Government Buildings yesterday, but were proof; ag^ingjf all blandiahmfatg. — WtiQif [the I House resumed- at 7.86?,- %_s* Sf&efmn ! choked I^inißters_ off Kaving.beea ldjbby- j ing "and holding; a Cabinet meeting on ! Sunday, to the g .eat soandal of Sabbata. ' rians. Ministers looked'- rfdjSctect/ and • he hoped in a few" days to see them resigned. Mr Reid had gond into the : G^rnment hencbeis. baldfceaded r brut i had %6titito t^fni^'o^tMiliiitindai He wotald suffer some punishment, and ; ha'veV his. eye's ' ptft- outi '•'' (Laughter)) : The Opposition >-i> Bis sorrowing ; brethren— wonld have to go down in a ' lew' days and 'bury his --'little, body. '. The Opposition had seen the "difficulty : of bringing the Government up to the j scratch. They were like some troops, who could only be brought up fco .the ' scratch by the- bayonets" of v their :cotn- ; rades. . (Laughter), Op Tuesday they ; would : 'be dalleilupoo Ad taW a^tha 1 gage of battle, ; ;_and ; ; agaiost the; occupants of the Government Bauchea. : (Hear, hear.), They said "hear hear," bufc.they ivoulinofc take -up the .glge. They would drop it like a hot poker. • The Opposition did not desire to delay '. buaioeab, and would therefore be glad to bear tbe Public Works Statement; He hoped afterwards meiabers would be j allowed to go home*,' to their . beds. • They must remember, if the Govern- ' ment had bard work to retain their seats, the Opposition also found a good deal of hard work in trying to turn !them put. Mr Sheehan delivered a most amusing speech, amidst- roars bf- ; laughter from all parts of the House. The "Loafer in fche-Sfcreet " ha i provided the Cbristcharch Press with an account of a trip he recently made by jetearaer fco Picton. Hesays:— Ail trips by jeteaemer are the same. rTbere are alwaya •the same people on the wharf to see the iboafe starfc- There is always a sad .looking woman in wraps on the poop ; with probably two children crawling iaround. There are invariably people jof opposite sexes kissing^ and when r ; 'you come on board it's; seven to oiie" ;you meet gtWo"|or threS commercial ' .travellers aad a minister of some - (denomination or other. After starting, hiuoryloace mor<£ -repeats itself. .You h*ve a drink ; talk till you get to :the Heads j and then camp ;down, audi [things are' fir from : gay. ' Toil donV think much of a life on the ocean wave.' I^ 01 ?: JfJ. a?d sleep, and' the screw r whangs inside the inuermost .tissues _of your bruin panels. You think, of the 179 different skeiis' obtainable ' in the cathedral city, and think any ooe.o' thu'm 'perferable to the scent of a, sieamer. Then when you have just succeeded in falling into a stupor the the purser asks you for. your ticket, your oute vvak«3 you for a match, • aaoilior fellow pokes you up agaiujwiih a suck, and Buys he begs your pardon, bui thought you were. JdneSj, [AU tbeae at different intervals,; then then more sleep, »nd you wake up

feeling as if you never had a wash fo rj seven weeks. Such is steamer life oni short trips. * * • * Th..ruoj from Wellington to Picton across 1 thd Straits ie very sboH. There is jusj lime to beisick. Captain Wheeler fcrted to keep us from it ; he chaffed lis first,! and ; ihen played a fantasia on his viohtf. I^as Till W the same, *md ye^ I could die listening fco that violin. I feel sure I could easily.