Parliamentary Gossip.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4511, 20 June 1883, Page 2

Parliamentary Gossip.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBBESPONDENT.)

Wellington, This day.

There is do political news in the proper sense of the term, and yet outside of general politics, an important thing; has happened. The old amicable relations, between Sir George Grey and Mr Macaudrew have been established, from events oricauses which need not be particularised; they had unhappily drifted apart, but; the drifting asunder again can hardly occur. All the wild conjectures called political intelligence one sees in the papers is the veriest surmise, these conjectures after truth are often absurd, and are nearly always unreliable ; one thing more than another which has caused a return of the old relationship between them is the conviction that no reform can be inaugurated worthy of being called a reform, until the Central Government is broken down, and the Wellington influence destroyed. ",■'■' -v Ten Wellington members out of the eleven support the Government, and they pick nearly "all the plums out of the pudding—they would bare the lot if they could. The debate on the Address would hare been concluded I ast night, bad not Major Atkinson waited for Sir G. Grey to speak. There was so little in the Governor's speech that Shaw had to wander away into the defects of the Bankruptcy law in order to fill up a quarter of aa hour. Major Atkin son made a speech in bis usual unamiable manner, using assertion for argument,and statements for facts. The speech of; the evening was that of Mr jßatbgate, -w.ho &r ' raigncd the financial policy of the Goveru me^tin no measured language. Mr Thompeon also spoke well, and Mr Montgomery made tbe best speech he has yet made in Parliament. The way tbe Times this morning deals with the debate is very amusing. It says: " The Treasurer's speech wes gc^d of its kind, but we don't think that Major Atkinson is at his tsat in his war p^int, aud whenbrandishing a club in one hand, and a ccalping knife in the other Mr Fi»fc followed in a few words about nothing in particular; Mr Fulton defmded bis own political purity, and Mr J. W. Thomson gave a sort of gingerbeer explosion of frothy ;bu,t- empty eloquence. Sir Geo. Grey contented himself with a few woeds in the course of the evening, and Meusrs B:ithgate and Joyce twaddled a little from the Opposition benches."