Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4260, 26 August 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[By Telegbaph.] (prom oub own cobbespondent.) Wellington, Last night. Allwright and O'Callaghan went away today, and do not "intend returning. Morris expects to get away next Thursday* and Weston about the same time. Montgomery will strive again to have an Assembly meeting before tbe financial year expires by opposing the usual clause in Revenues Act, or curtailing the time for advances to one month. When the question of repairs to the Parliamentary Buildings comes on Shrimski will try again for the removal of the next meeting of the Assembly, and I am told about 35 members have pledged their support on the ground that curtailing expenses by repairing the present buildings would pay interest on the money employed in the erection of new buildings. Should this be done an effort will be made to keep the two Houses apart, as the Lords' lobby and the Commons' are too close, and too many of them are merely Government touts. This also would help Shrimski in his motion, for the new House seems very impatient of the touting of some members of the Upper House.

This day. A return was laid on the table yesterday showing tbe amount of population and the moneys spent out of loan since the commencement of the Public Works Policy: —Population : -Auckland, 101,995; Taranaki, 15,277; Hawkes' Bay, 17,734; Wellington, 62,715; Nelson, 26,474; Marl borough, 9,509; Canterbury, 114,725; Westland, 15,550; Otago, 136,932. Ex« penditure: Auckland, £2,804,711; Tar*naki, £666,060 ; Hawkes' Bay, £848,606 ; Wellington, £2,696,450; Nelson £935 273; Marlborough, £302,978; Canterbury £3.132,567; Westland, £858,811; Otago, £4892,618; general, £1,897,271.