WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2089, 14 September 1875, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Monday,

It was simply impossible that an arrangement could have been come to to-day. The Opposition leaders sent an acceptance of the Government proposition this morning, but before this c nbe agreed upon the Government are "..ound by the resolution of Saturday's caucus to consult their party, communications having been passing between both sides tc-day. But an agreement has been come to, a good many say, that a definite conclusion will be arrived at by the time the House meets tp morrow; but it is quite on the cards that such an event may not happen. The fear is that Grey, Fitzherbert, Macandrew and Eolleston have been endeavoring to gain the advantage in the late diplomatic negotiations, which their admittedly superior powers of political cunning, and what is vulgarly called dodgery, qualify them for, but which parliamentary debate did not give them. The proposition laid before them by the Government in answer to theirs, it was distinctly understood had to be ratified by the Government party by writing, and accepting this they think to be able to say—in case negotiations should break oflf—that the Government were really the impracticable people, and that they (the Opposition) showed a possible desire for a compromise in the Opposition interests; and in futherance of this plan not a few ingenious correspondents have, I believe, telegraphed to certain papers that an agreement has been come to —their only foundation being the circumstances cf a stand-by, their intention being to say, in case of no agreement being come to, that it was the fault of the Government.

(j?Bo3£ A CORRESPONDENT.)