PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3936, 10 August 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

[By Tblbobaki.]

(FEOH OVB BPBCIAL COBBISFONDBKT.)

Wellington, This dig.

The full returns of the Miori^etrttt#aw now completed showing males, 24,370; and females, 12,720. Thii ihOWa In increase of about 500 within the past tfcrte years. ' •• .' ■:- ' -"■';«:■/* ;' - _ The Public Accounts Committee fcaye reported on the matter of the ;€3OQ alleged to have been improperly paid to Mr W. L. Sees, to the effect that having again carefully considered the question remitted' . to it by the House, any further action devolves on : the. Government; ?it%if to proceed against the' Ministers who ,

authorised the payment, or to place the amount on the estimates asr unauthorised expenditure. x-sqxlfi ' The Premier l«stß^ght informed tfce House that several reports, had been circulated that the Gov«cnment had some* thing to do with thejnon-arrival of the Flying Squadron to Mfar Zealand. Mr Hall distinctly-denied il, and statedTlie believed tbe cause of the squadron not coming here might be attributed to 4l^e accident which happened to the Bacchante, and also, to the serious illness of |wrt Clanwilliam. - Tie Prflmier tabled -fo)e< grams and copies of telegrams that had passed between the Governor an* Karl Clanwilliam. .'} '■■..-.*. .;-s