Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4228, 20 July 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[Br Teleghuph.] (feom oub own correspondent.) Wellington, Last night.

Seddon has introduced bills to make the Goldfields' Lands Begulations to operate within all Harbor B«ard, Education, and other reserves situate in mining districts.

The Government will put a sum on the supplementary estimates to pay the Thames volunteers, and when the vote comes on will explain why it has entertained an objection to the previous payment. Sheehan and other members, including those from Waikato, are putting pressure on the Government to extend the railway Te Aroha way, commencing at Grahamstown.

The accounts of the Public Debts Sinking Funds were presented to Parliament this day, made up to the 30tli June last. The receipts for the year amounted to £35,685; the total funds held by the Commissioner amount to £163,860.

Thisdar. Government had a narrow majority last night, Filliett and Buchanan, of Napier, saving them from a tie, as every man either voted or paired. Bryce, in the early part of the evening, got very angry, and said Government would stand or fall by the division, at which his colleagues were somewhat annoyed. As soon as the House rose for the half hour, a Cabinet meeting was called, at which it was decided that Bryce should be supported in his action, and so when Major Atkinson came back he stated that the Government would not go on with any other business until the affair was settled one way or another. Pilliet, after the division, wanted to make out that he did not know it was a Government qnestion, but this matters not the Opposition say, and they consider he got them the victory which they, say was more than a defeat.

Dargaville got coldly treated by the House last night. He is not playing his cards well.