Parliamentary Gossip

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4525, 6 July 1883, Page 3

Parliamentary Gossip

(*»m OUR OWS COBBJS3PONPENT.) WEiiiKSTON, This day. The Ministry bar© prematurely shown An unusual hostility, whether rightly.or wrongly, to the Native Land Co.'s Bill while it wan not yet before th*- House. Mr ifaeaadrew pointed oat that tbia was a ' most tt&MMI prooeeding.. It w«a known j >'4U aloo M th>t Mr Bryce was beot on opwe^iUt md wanted the report but 40fat ftJbtfait^ht. but he wis oterruW. :-» watrt; A»By affair altogether, but tbe Bill if iaVIOO careful hands to fall through., Meaalißk; this » certain,, troublesome times are before Ministers, aod

more troublesome thin most imagineIf the Ministry insist on this bill bejng rejected' on technical grounds, it cannot eoneon this session. There are msny rsse» efcout' the number who will rMt, Mr Montgomery's motion; the voting will be free it. is said, as it will not be a »o confidence motion,-whatever form it tfnr assume daring the debate: Mr Mitehelson will more about disfranchising rm civil serriee. A return laid on the ttble of the House shows that in Auck land there are 140 telephones, the cost of sjaeh instrnment with its connection being £82 6s; in Wellington there are; 57 ntstruinentii, each costing ,£l9 13s; jin Cfcmteftirch 126. opsting £20 8* lid; and[i« pwnedi'n 197, eostfeg £21 2s. Jin enrsty eaa» tbe price ef the instrument is Set down a* £10, the balance being for wire, ides, fnrnituff, add leW —"Two oases containing about one huadred »rti*e idants will be for wankd t« Lyttaltoa ffcr Botoma to day, i& mder to W BBipped by the lonic for the lew gandeng at Home—Mr Mom veaierday iPis-eleeted Chairman of the ■ PwWic Aceoonts OoramittW-The rdoea--too report shows the ioci-eaaVd. annual OMtKnets of the syttera; the cost hea4 last year beip« £6 5« Bd. as compared with £4 19* 9H i<> toft. prefiqus leaup."' " r' ■. '

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