PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1776, 14 August 1888, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

I understand that the names of Sir F. D. Bell, Dr Grace (M.L.C.), and Mr Montgomery are to be submitted to the Governor as Commissioners to represent the colony at the Paris Exhibition. The first order of the day to-day will be the resumption in Committed of the Native Bills, which the Government intend to push through before taking any further business. It .is generally stated that sloriewallihg will be recommenced to-morrow In consequence of amendments made in the Native Land Bill .which the i Natives state is even worse than the original BUI. Mr Sydney Taiwhanga states in reference to his pledge to the Premier on Friday night, that his promise not to further obstruct, only applied to the Native Land Bill, which has gone through, and that he is quite free to oppose the Native Land Courts Bill, which he considers to be even more objectionable than the Native Land Bill. Mr Taipua, it is understood, will again assist him. Mr Carroll objects very strongly to the amendments made in the Native Land Bill, but he will not take part in the obstruction. It is very possible the Natives will have the assistance of some of the West Coast members, with whom rumor, has it a compact has been made that in return for their co-operation the Natives will help them to stonewall the Crown and Native Lands Eating Act Eepeal Bill. With these • two large obstructions looming up in the future, it is impossible to conjecture when the session may come to an end, and ideas of an indefinite period are becoming preva-. lent. It is thought, however, that one outcome of the stonewalling of this session will almost certainly be the introduction of cloture rules like thoge so successfully adopted by the House of Commons in England.—Corres--' pondent of Ashburton Guardian.