PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3933, 6 August 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

[By Telegbafh.]

(FBOM OUR BPEOIAI, COBEBBFOKDENT.)

WeWNOTON, This day,

Sir George Grey's motion for a select committee to revise the Estimates completely took the House by surprise last night. The. session, so far as want of confidence motions are concerned, has been a series of surprises, and it is rumored that there are several yet in store —notably that of which I advised you the other day, to be brought forward when the Representation Bill is before the House.

; Mr-Ballance said that iv looking over the Estimates, he found scarcely any redijctiqnsjji the |arge salaries, and the :HoußeAV4'^M li^bW6 expect such would have been tt^.c.age. J' B. J?islie£*fiii*je a bitter attach on the correspondent of the 'fjmaru Herald for representing him (Fisher) to. have said in effect that the Judges and Magistrate^ ff the Colony were unfit persons. He said he had conferred with the leaders of the party as to whether he ehould brjuj^ the matter up as a breach ot

privilege, but was advised to treat it with the conptemt it merited, as the cor respondent of the paper some time since had made an abject apology in the House for making false assertions. It is pretty well known that Wakefield is the correspondent io question

The Nelson and Westland members had a meeting yesterday, when it was resolved that Mr G-isborne should move to the effect that the basis of redistribution of seats as proposed hy the Government was unsatisfactory. It was further resolved that if the Bill got into Com mittee in] its present form, it should be opposed at every stage.