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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3308, 29 July 1879, Page 2

A WeMiINGTPN telegram of Friday's date to the Herald says:—The Government hare been putting up members to talk against time, and offering to allow a division, on. Tuesday next —a shameless waste of the time and money of the country—and the Opposition will not agree; If the Government persist much longer, the result will be most damaging to them, and further defection from their party. Some of the members from the Province of Auckland have been annoyed with numerous telegramsl from their constituents, asking them to support a Government which it is. impossible, to make a decent apology for. The insane cry about a Liberal Constitution at last night' 3 meeting in Wellington has added to the contempt'members-feel towords the members of the Government, one of whom railed against capitalists and land I jobbery. The fact is, the prestige and standing of the Government has fallen lower and lower day by day during the last week:. Nothing can save them, and the' majority will be large. : . Many members, x their old supporters, will walk but, and not vote. - , A SEEVANT ;'at Jewell's Bay Hotel, Dunedin, gave birth to a female child on Saturday^ She concealed* the fact' until the infant was discovered in a box in her mother's cottage. She had on the previous evening excited suspicion, but sho insisted "there were no grounds for theft, Dr Fergussbn was called in -yesterday morning, and to him she denied she had given birth to a child, but the dead.body of the infant was found shortly after. It was '•-- removed to ■ the hospital, where ah inquest will be held in due course; ; ' ' A bbothee of Mr G. T. Fannin, of Napier, Mr Eustace Fannin, is in the Zulu campaign, as chief border agent, and -the proposals for peace made by Cetewayo were 1 couducted through Mr Fannin.