PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5197, 12 September 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

[By Telegbaph.] (fbom otje otvn correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Jjast nigftt. The farce is going on, and the whole country should feel a deep sense of humiliation at what its representatives are doing in Parliament. It is worse than humiliating to think that the prospects of tbe country are in thi hands of men, like the blatant member for Christcburch South, who, " dog in the manger-like," are able by the force of numbers to refuse justice to the rest of the colony, because they onnot carry their own vile schemes. The most humiliating feature is that tbe Government, supposed to possess the confidence of the country, are content to retain their seats on the 'treasury Benches and allow their proposals to be treated in this fashion, and the progress of the colony stayed. The public policy has been turned topsyturvy, and the Government have shown their idea of the art of government to be merely clinging to their seats. Now that this manceuvre of the Railway party has been successful, everything else may well go by the board, and the end of the session may be reckoned by days. As you will see, none of the rumored amendments were moved, though up to half'past 5 o'clock it was the intention to move the one I last informed you of.

Wellington, Last night.