parliamentary Gossip.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4523, 4 July 1883, Page 3

parliamentary Gossip.

-OVn OWX COBBEBPONDEIIT.) ,^;r Wbhibotok, This day. "The PaWie Works Statement was vntty-will receive* «nHI Sir George Grey •rnie and pointed out bow unfair was the proposal to allow those benefited by oonKru^vailways to escape eontpi-; bntins to tbe revenue, and charging those through-whose lands future, railroads would run; This anomaly was recognised. Mr-Montgomery displays much annoy•nee the position Sir George Grey tkke* but then the latter cannot be ,£pected to sit silent if the Canterbury map neglects taking advantage pf oppor* tunitie* as they, arise. ; " ' , i It will be noticed by cable messages of "•* this day that S?r George Grey's proposal. «b6ut annexation arid federation is the flame aa\that of the English Premier. Id the Public Works eslimetes for the railways Hamilton-Te Aroha and Te A rnha Thames, oonstruction, over co9t of Und, requires £55,0C0-liability to 31st JSureh/lMt, *15,251; Hamilton Camtusd«« branch, construction and land, S W-lfcbilhj to March last, £9,426: total; t&MM' £14,572 were expended during l«t f*« oat of the *ote of £65 000. The only other thing I see id the/esUmatea relative to your district is £2 620 -for road Thames to Tauranga : tbic *p|>earrto me as only a balance of an onexj#ded previous voie.