WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3883, 9 June 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

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(tEdM OTTB BPBCIAL.) ' Wellington, This day. The Opeiuߣ of Parliament Mid Political Gossip, The speech is delivered, the House is adjourned, and we shell have a few quiet; days before the address in reply is mbfed, and . many- days before it is disposed of. Ministers did not * look? nappy.: No : Minister o£. Public, _Works save the; expectant Waikefiel<£ " Manyof^tle big guns have notsyet arrived. Your^junior member is at Taupo, being summoned as a witness in the matter of Karitiana's will, for the sixteenth inotant at Napier. Already there is a quiet whispering $p smother the means tor completing your railway. Perhaps young VVbitaker and White expect Patetere lands are more suited to carry a railway through. ; The Honorable Walter Johnstone's appoint* | ment is creating a very uneasy feeling, I and specially so as no mention whatever was made about the Education Act in either of the Colonial speeches of the Honorable the Premier;' There is a whip rumor to day in the lobbies that Mr Kichardson will be appointed Minister of Public Works. Should the report (urn out true, the Otago, Nelson and Napier members will be further annoyed, and their uncertain voting will be a matter for serious consideration amongst the supporters of the Ministry. Undoubtedly the air is full of strange whisperings, the principal ones, being that the Premier meditates the placing of bis early resignation and that of his colleagues in the hands of the Governor. It would not surprise me if the thin^happened . Home of the returns which will be- asked for will be very unpleasant for the Government. The Opposition, I believe, will be able to secure a majority on most of the committees, especially the Native Affairs and Public Accounts. Soapy Dan Pollen's penal n will again come b< fore the House, whilst a motion will be tabled to have a full statement in connection .with the extravagant expenditure during the recess under the; different contingent accounts aud unau horised expenditure. The West Coast amounts spent on really nothing will be used as a handle against the " Liberals " of the Treasury Benches, whilst the way in which the Magisterial roll has been increased to please political friends, and bumptious individuals on the. Commission of the Peace, will have a good effect in ! the distrust of Parliament 'to--'allowing the Government a day louger than can be be helped. Some curious revelations are expected in connection with the class of lives which are taken by the agents of the Annuities Department.