Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4233, 1 August 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

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Wellington, This day.

Ministers are now mainly exercised over the Loan proposals, and some of them are in grave doubts whether they will be carried or not. What the Government think and hope about the matter they have had announced in the Times of to-day, which says:—Owing to the prolonged debate which took place last evening on the report of the Committee on Standing Orders relative to the proposed amended rules of Parliamentary procedure presented to the House on the 11th July, the messages from the Acting-Governor respecting the Loan Bills did not come up for consideration as was intended. They will, however, probably be brought forward today. They will, we believe, be considered in the order in which they are placed on the Order Paper, the One Million Loan Bill for the trunk line between Auckland and Taranaki first, and the Three Million General Loan Bill second. They will thus practically stand or fall together, the determination being that unless the former is carried the latter will cot bo. This arrangement overturns the calculation of some members, and dissipates the fears of some others that the larger loan might be authorised and the smaller one left out in the cold. It is well for the country that such a course has been resolved -on. It isabsolutely essential that the Ministry should be in a position to act with promptitude in commencing the railway through the native King Country so soon as the Maoris hare given their consent, as they speedily may do, to this important undertaking. Mr Seed still remains in Government employ. Mr Sheehan yesterday presented a petition from the Corporation of the Thames complaining of the non-receipt of certain goldfields revenue. It appears the GoTernment will have to bring down a Validation Bill to validate the irregularities which-havo taken place in administering the present Education Act. The cities and boroughs, although within the counties are not "in " counties and as the subsidies are to counties and to boroughs within counties they are not technically " in " counties.