Parliamentary.

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Parliamentary.

[from OUR own correspondent]. 4 r - . ■— Wellington, August 5. The following are the estimates as affecting East Coast, viz : —Registrar of Electors East Coast, £4O ; Resident Magistrate, also Frauds Commissioner, £520 ; also Coroner’s fees ; Clerk and Registrar of Births &c., with fees, £250 ; Interpreter, £5O ; Cadet, £6O ; Bailiff, £l6O Office cleaner &c., £llO ; Clerk at Ormond, also Constable, £136 17s 6d ; Gaoler Gisborne, 8s 6d per diem for six months ; Surgeon do., £l2 10s ; Postmaster, Opotiki, £2lO ; Messenger, £36 ; Maketu, £165; Postmaster Gisborne, £325 ; two Telegraphists, £lOO each ; Counter Clerk, £lO5 ; two Messengers, £4O ; Custodian, £125 10s ; Country Postmasters, £7O ; conveyance of mails inland of Gisborne, £250 ; Customs Collector, £360 ; Clerk, nil; Collector Tauranga, nil ; Harbor Master and Pilot at Gisborne, £175 ; two boatmen, £7 10s per month ; Native Assessors, nil. For a reorganization of the Volunteer forces as recommended by Colonel Scratchley, £10.414. The Licensing Bill passed through the Legislative Council without material alterations. The clause for the election of the Commissioners was carried on division by a majority of ten. Business in the House is confined to questions of not much interest. The Game and Lotteries Bill passed through Committee. It is rumored to-day that on the motion to go into Committee of Supply to-morrow, the Opposition will raise a debate, and another No-confidence motion will be made. Ormond and Reader Wood are not expected to return this Session. Grey still intends to proceed with his Local Government Bill. It is the genera! feeling amongst members that very little useful legislation will be done this Session, and it would be well to press on the Estimates and prorogue. Friday, 9 p.m. The second reading of the Gisborne Harbor -Bill passed last night; there was a very warm discussion. McDonald in moving the second reading complained that the Government had not done much for the East Coast. Rolleston opposed the bill saying he objected to grants of lands for such purposes. Rolleston was snubbed by several Members for his attack on McDonald, principally by DeLatour, and Downe Stewart. Hall supported the second reading when he saw the mistake that Rolleston had made. He said Rolleston had taken more interest in the East Uoast than any other part of the colony. If the Bill runs the gauntlet of the Lower House, it will receive much opposition in the Legislative Council. It is said that if the Government proceed with the Financial debate to-night, a NoConfidence motion will be moved. Nelson and Westland members held a caucus to-day re the Representation Bill. It was agreed that Gisborne should move a resolution to the effect that a basis of population alone on the distribution of representation is unsuitable to the requirements of the colony, and that the principle of dividing the whole colony into single electoral districts is unsatisfactory. An Act to amend t e Education Act providing for Bible reading in schools, has passed the second reading in Legislative Council. The Bill will not pass the Lower House. A number of petitions have been presented in the Lower House against the Lotteries Bill to-day. Richardson gave notice of question as by whose authority the tram which went over Rimutaka last Sept, was made up with the engine in the centre, contrary to the well understood principle on which trams worked by fell engines should be made up.