Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4251, 16 August 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[By Telegraph.! (3?fiOM OUR OWN COBKESPONDENT.) Wellington, Last night. The securities held by the Public Trustee amount to £121,588 in value, of which all are invesced in New Zealand loans and Treasury Bills with the except tion of £8,488. The revenue of the Department for the year was £4,217, and the expenditure on office and salaries, £2,544. The interest paid by the Government to the Public Trustee 6a loans

during the year ending June 30 amounted to £4,350. The amounts unclaimed for the 1 last six years on intetlate estates reached the sum of £1,534. Amounts received for the maintenance of patients in lunatic asylums, £4,667. Both these sums were paid into the Consolidated Fund. The different sums paid for asylums are as follow :—Auckland, £171; Wellington, £210 ; Napier, £23; Nelson, £201; Christchurcb, £277; Hokitika, £25; Dunedin, £348. The amount of cash the office had in hand at the end of the year was £10,370. Re petitions from the local bodies at the Thames, which were sent to the Native Affairs Committee and reported upon by that Committee, and referred to the Government for consideration, the action taken by Mr Sheehan to have them re ferred to the Goldfields Committee was successful, and at the next meeting of the Committee Mr Wakefield is to be examined and the Solicitor-General as to when the remedy sought by the petitions is expected to be obtained, and the Thames placed in the same position as Southern goldfields. Hursthouse gave notice that he would move on the 17th' that in the opinion of this House those districts through which Government railways run should b9 charged the. difference between working expenses and interest on cost of con« struction, and the rates from such line.

The Goldfield's Committee report on the case of John Earl and others that the petition be referred to the Grovernment for favorable consideration. This day.

The Million Loan Bill may be now considered safe, but from Atkinson's amendment that the sum of £1,C00,000 shall not be raised until the line upon which the money is to be expended has been surveyed and approved by Parliament, which was carried, it will be seen that the raising of the money depends on the, North keeping a majority in the House. How Parliament will survey the line is not clear. Some of the Lords look with distrust on borrowing again, and resistance will be offered by them, but tbe strength of their resistance has not yet been gauged. I am in a position to state that the King natives generally approve of the railway going through the land of Maniapoto, and will aid Government in Ceding a route as enhancing the value of their property. Dr Diver has petitioned Parliament for fees in connection with examining volunteers before going to Parihaka. It is not thought he will get any compensation.

Tole is to move to-day for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the management of the Hospital Auckland. Later.

The Southern men this morning killed the Northern Loan by making Atkinson accept a proviso to the effect that the million loan should not be raised until the line be surveyed and approved by Parliament. How Atkinson came to adopt such an amendment no one can conceive, unless, as the Southern men say, that it was forced on the Govern moot. It is hard to understand at a distance how strong the fueling is against the Government over this matter. The Southern men are very jubilant, as may be expected, at neutralising all the justice, or modicum thereof, proffered to the North. Whether there is any occult arrangement between Atkinson and Macandrew does not not yet appear, but some such compact seems probable.