PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3961, 8 September 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

[Bx Telegbaph.] ■-.;.,■: -.-. ___ 4, . :;• , y - (feom oub special cobbespondent.) Wellington. ThU; day. THE BEPRESENTATION BILL. I think the intelligence transmitted to you is about the first wired to any colonial newspaper in connection with the Representation Bill. I am confidently informed that Sir George Grey has made up his mind to do everything possible to upset the measure, and failing in other 1 means, he will go Home at a convenient period with a view of having the decision of the Privy Council on the illegal way it has been passed through Committee, owing to the rulings of both Chairman of Committees and the Speaker of the Ho,use,iSir George Maurice O'Rorke. ' .GOtERNMENT MEASUBES. ■ A number of '• small matters," similar in scope and intention to the District Railways Bill of last session, are not to be brought down at all, so that the "few " axes which the Ministry intended to aid grinding for a few followers will not cv.en see their existence on the Order Paper. Capital situation for the expectants who have been used by the Premier and his colleagues to keep them in office in anticipation, of favors to come ! Verily, we are on, the eve of Mrs Shipton's prophecy being verified in the political world. The following is the present state of the Order Paper of the House of Representatives :—»99 bills in various stages, namely, 52 which have not yet passed the second reading, 30 not yet through Committee, 3 for report, 2 for third reading, and 3 for consideration of amendments by Council. Then there are six other Orders .of Day, and 22 notices of motion. 363 petitions have been presented this session, and 187 papers laid on the table.