PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5166, 7 August 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

[By Telegbaph.] ! (feom own ouk coekespondent.) Wellington, Yesterday. ' Things are quiet this morning, and there appears to be nothing going on; ' whether this is the lull before the storm remains to be seen. It is rumored that overtures were yesterday made to Mr I Stout to try and induce him to promise to assist a new party, and throw over Sir J. Vogel, but I refuse to believe that Mr Stout would desert a colleague in the hour of his distress; he has too loyal and chivulrous a nature for anything of that kind. Major Atkinson and Mr Ormond are away now for a long walk. This day. Some one has; said that the way to men's hearts lies thromgh their stomachs ; bearing this in mind, the Canterbury members have conceived the idea of giv« ing a dinner to their fellow members, probably out of gratitude for the assistance given to the East and West Coast Railway, but possibly for other reasons ; the dinner is to be held at Bellamy's tomorrow night. The Legislative Council have thrown out the clause in the School Election Bill abolishing cumulative voting, and have inserted a clause making the minimum school age seven years.