Parliamentary Gossip.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4532, 14 July 1883, Page 2

Parliamentary Gossip.

OUB OWK COBBEBPONDENT.) . ".hi' ''\\'- ' '■"'■ This day., '■ Th"c fbilbwiDß^is the distribution of Charitable Aid^durine, the ye>ar:—Auckland , £6,393 ; taranaki, £795; Wellington, t3l9|; Hawkes Bay, £970; Nelson, £3274; #estland, £982; Canterbury, £13,499 j Otago, £5039. '

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' .Forty-one /votes were expeotedsby Mr Montgomery, out of the Provincial party of forty-two ; they got 25 and 18 pairs ; every man was polled or paired except, o'Borke. The votes on the Provincial side would have more, bad not a no-confidence issue been raised, and the question, decided on its merits alone. >yelljtefojn people i now' awake; to ;the danger 'to' their vested interests in the central form of Government, and the amount of dissatisfaction existing with the Central.. Government. . The majority of tin' was "the Wellington ten votes, but;' to obtain even thesis, four Ministers and-Messrs Shaw and Fitzgerald, both Wellington residents, had to be obtained. Six votes, besides Welling ton inflneaee, it will be seen, had; to be got to beat the Provincial party; Its members fare naturally well pleased at the division, and well they may be, for few people thought so many votes-would have been polled on a motion loosely worded; ▼ague even in its outlines, and proposing any solution of the financial question involved in its > consideration. The civil servants are those who feel the keenest alarm at the vote, and it is not too much to say that the rote is the most important since the abolition of the provinces. ,