Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4214, 4 July 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[By Telegbaph.] (feom our own cobbbspondent.; Wellington, Last night.

The Times this morning says that several answers have been sent by public bodies to the Colonial Treasurer's circular respecting an amended form of Local Government, and as might have been known before hand all these proposed amendments save one are mere matters of detail. What this one exception is the Times does not state.

It is stated freely that Yogel will be opposed with ranch persistency in his attempt to establish the Electric Lighting here.

From the Australasian Electric Light Power and Storage Company Limited, the prospectus bearing date 11th May 1882, the following paragraph is taken:—" The vendors have required or entered into the following agreement, viz., an agreement dated 18th day of April 1882, between Sigismund Eohn of the one part, and Sir Julius Vogel of the other part, an agreement dated sth day of May, 1882, and made between the Anglo American Brush; Electric Light Corporation, Limited, of the one part, and Sir Julius Vogel of the other part; two agreements dated respectfully the 6th and 9th days of May 1882, and made between Sir Julius Yogel on the one part and the vendors on the other part. The capital of the company is £255,000.

There is no truth whaterer in the statement I see in the last file of Heralds that the native members will support the Native Reserves Bill. At first they thought the Bill would do until they learnt its hidden import, but when they did and I asked Te Wheoro what they were going to do with the Bill, he pointed with his finger downwards, saying, "It must go there."

The Ministry was in Cabinet all yesterday and again to-day, The Natire Reserves Bill is still a source of unhappiness. The Land Bill is condemned strongly by those who hare studied its provisions, which are as yet even only imperfectly understood! and so strong is the feeling against the Bill that no further cause to unite the Opposition is needed than the Government to persist in the passing of this measure. It needs publication as a whole to understand the intricacy of its wording. . It is understood the Cabinet business was to determine what work on the Order Paper shall be gone on with, and what cashiered; to arrange details of the Foblie Works Statement and the allocation of the loan.

When members come back from Christchurch, the Opposition members who are here say a trial of strength will be made. I believe this to be true, and that this is their intention at the present time—but, further than this I do not care to go.

The Government have promised to carry out the Report of the Volunteer Land and Scrip Commission by legislation.