Parliamentary Notes.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4270, 7 September 1882, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

[By Telegbaph.l

(S\ROM OUB; OWN-COBBESPONDENT.)

Wellington, Last night. The Public Petitions, Committee report on thec^sepf-AlexanderAitken, who prays, for consideration for loss of the Provincial Office, as follows :-r"lt appears from the evidence before the Committee that the petitioner did not retire at the date of the abolition of the provinces from the service,> but continued in the employ of the General Government and of ;the Thames County Council, and the Committee do not therefore consider that he is now entitled to compensation .as a provincial officer for loss of office."

The Post tonight publishes a coek-and-bull ;story^ about Macandrew writing Home to' Mr' Gladstone advising the appointment of Grey as Governor to succeed Gordon, and after dilating on the whole possibilities of such an arrangement, says, " failing tbis being done, Grey will go Home and stand for an Irish con* stituency." It says,' moreover, that the story comes from Auckland. What happened was this: The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, who is the editor of the Post, telegraphed the yarn to the Herald lant night, and the story was rife ia Auckland to-day until contradicted, possibly by the Star.•■= It;is quite true that Macandrew did write to Mr Glad~ stone to the effect stated, but he did so three years siqce, and; the (Post people hare only just learned the fact, and it is thought in this way.