TELEPHONE SPECIALS.
Wellington News. [Own Correspondent.] Wellington, October 27. There has been considerable speculation regarding the Ministerial statement made by Mr, Stout on Friday night, which he read from a printed slip, but the impression generally is that it refers to the East and West Coast Railway Bill being rejected by the Council, in which case the North Island will have obtained the main trunk line and the Middle Island nothing, unless the House assists Government by passing a resolution regarding the purchasing of district railways, to which also the Ministerial statement is supposed to refer. It is rumored that should the Council reject the East and West Coast Railway Bill Government will have another session of Parliament held in three or four months time, and if the Bill is not passed then a dissolution will be asked for. An opinion prevails among legal members of the House that notwithstanding the rejection of the proposal to include morning newspapers in the exemption clause of the Police Offences Bill, compositors will not be debarred from working on such papers on Sunday nights, as the police cannot enter newspaper offices for the purpose of initiating a prosecution.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 270, 27 October 1884, Page 2
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195TELEPHONE SPECIALS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 270, 27 October 1884, Page 2
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