PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3960, 7 September 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

[By Telegraph.]

(FROM OUfi SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington. This day. There was laid yesterday on the table of the House a,statement showing the apportionment between the several Provincial Districts of the amount expended out of loans from the commencement of the Public Works Policy to 1871, as follows :—Auckland, £2,680,900; Hawkes Bay, £817,325; Wellington, £2,620,500; Taranaki, £604,006 • Nelsonj £904,030 ; Marlborougb, £287,200; Canterbury, £3,008,532; Westland, £811,064; Otago, £4,714,862; general, £1,346,705—t0ta1, £17,795,143. " : I : At the dictation of the Hon Dr.-Grace, the New Zealand Times has had to apologise for some strictures made on the Premier by an anonymous contributor to its columns, who has made himself notorious under ■ the norn de plume of " Ignotus." On the motion of Mr Hutchison, there was laid on; the table of; the House yesterday a return in reference to the Normal schools in the colony to the 25th August, 1881. There are four schools in the colonyi at Dunedin, Cliristohurch, Wellington,-and Auckland. The total number of teachers employed- is 13, of whom six are visiting teachers, at an annual salary of £3459.