PARLIAMENTARY.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 256

PARLIAMENTARY.

OVB$; THE SPEAKER'S CHAIB. t ' ; , FBOM OITB SbECIAI. CoBBBSPOBTDBifa;. . ; . , „ ' a , . Wai^iNGipir, Thxixsday. — -Dignan has got quite strong again. i — I hear Hislop, Inspector of Schools, has been ; made Dr.-Hislop. ; . . ... ■„,:■ ;v — Swanson has thrown aside, his crutches and taken to sticks. : . . ', ' '"j — The belief is not dead in the South that; Otago is maintaining 'Auckland. " « "■ " ' ,' — Pilliett driv&s. a!) : out ,,in a <sab~a kind °^ political pariah, shunned' by all. *' ' ' ■ — Major Atkinson is said to " boss" tlje-, jVew Zealand JHtne^r— but f who knows 2" . ;.. • . ' j — Wellington people oonsider they have a pre-i emptive right over .'the Moka'u cpalfield. : ", j —The ma j ority of ten that . Rons ' Marten' told ' the Herald about was the Wellington ten. —People are inquiring whether Bryce has becomo a Nazarito, aa he is this session wearing his hair long. ; r • - ■ . — Keiiy thinks the Government snubbed him by not; allowing the Hinemoa to call and bring him to Wellington. , ' . --The car©B of life, or of office, I know not which, are aging the Minister of Public Works .very fast. . „, . , ' ' i ■^-A sormon from a Mormon elder would have gathered a larger audience and obtained more attention than did the Financial Statement. ' —At Government -House people dance to nursery rhymes sung, such as "Little Jack Homer " and similar ditties. . —I have heard the lawyer* of the Cambridge Land Court described by a Maori member as " Eroa ngt . taniwh% w .(the two monsters). —I saw women coming out of the Potts lecture, one afternoon. LambtonQuay was so crammejd that it was almost unsafe for a man tp be jeeni —The sheet called JW% published at Gisborne, is run, I h«w, in,th» iaterwi. of the survivors ; of the f&wke'a Bay apples. A ,, : . " — -Q»& of tb^,W©llinffto? d^iliea last week said that the exponfliture during .the last financial yiftr incluaod'^J^te^iSfor inierest o^^ans. , ; ; — During ( t^e, ,46^% ;«u the Fisheries Bil^ I heard » singular definition of pleasing objoet^- ' " Oyators, troW,ana i*« othdr (tm*tim® s&4*,*\ —A jsropoiil is bding abetted to pt& the <^o« venuosent o| :th» Colony up to rfotatraet, and S6©i#~ ifeoan'fc be doße,«b»*p9» Itje (h»neni^nt» than'by Hajor Aiktnsoß.' «■• »-»?-■■> '<■<* -.; -•■■■» | ■ —I hear, jjh« Gbv«fnrme«4 is sending Home a Tarax^afcfgiaatt fi« Immigration Agent, and, further, that ono boat a year of th» direct steam serviojb i» t» calUhere first. ■ ". ?j „— .| ( s^w a Wo sg a^l^ a<J *3 F ' **$"*£s waU^n|j-i alodg LkmbtonCT^^M&in»arm , ,w.Kh a gentle^ taanwLo was nJ^^Kpo^a bro J ad-briEts, thoughthe lady w,or» o^|ipdox bonnet,, I /hear^ who, hai^Jound Russia too hot; for them, are comiag^to W«llirtgton, and situations havs>'^een v provided for them bptpre they come., Atkinson was very '.ißria in fe.»sf!titi^ their employment, in the.Treasury. -. < The Civil "Service'^mtends^'rhising a vah-V' a? testimonial to tho OdldnialTreiWtirer, as a mark of their recognition of the care and zeajl -^lth which ho has protected and watchad-pfjar- tlieir interests. . ''d''3 ■ '-~Huilt has again come to 'to*, look attar SiivA. Gdrdoii. He'iias :i>fdugbt /th#*.^"ijian jailor with him to arrost Siv Arth-aji*.. I nik told that the Sanioan King dirt not give, liim either a cordial reception or an ••i':<--i-ot rsßOwed'-'aQf <fic6. — rTlie bulk fafthe s v;, : . in the Terawhiti <3roldfield are held Joy ine !:-:.'.<-:.- of the Civil Service." The price of stock; n;v- .'or.-.s a matter of daily interest. Only fandv^ i,L- In .'eat wooden building in the world being 'turned iiio a iniaing , stock Exchange! '•« -'•■ , .• ■ — About midnight the House, gtinks -worse than ever,; as the, fz*esh -members come the stench increases. Tlio House Oonimittee have invented a new drain to poison ttxe" reporters,, specially cpnstructed for that pru*pose. If a jury could be got to sentence, them to pei^al servitude for life many of us would die happy. \ ' . %j '— A paper came out la l >st Sattu^av. called the New Zealand Liberal. , It-, certaii^p should have remained unpublished for tioxno tifne, as. it is very prematui'e; ' , The ' only thffig in the rirst copy worthy of- reproduction in \.the proposal to put Bryce on one side of the pepper-box on the top of the new Post-office, and fio 3 L'oU>ji on the other. . —Some Southern 'meu r «ro\conspia-ing : i'a^ainst Montgomery's lead. ...Those ■ ".vho haves been hitherto his '"'supporters' ; h»v»Vt"6d him, they say, and find that ha will net do. To say the least- of "the --matter,- he betrays bad iorin. For instance, when Grey called a uieeting he refused to attend, and so did Macandrew.;, _ -— jQlarkj a-draper here. I uorieo is advorti'sing a commercial copjaciehce sai©, Green, I am told^; .who is also' a dtapeX;in Dunedin, a.dvortisos Sal-; vation raiment,. warranted to fit all lands and con r ' ditions of men and, women.' 4 The.hirffc .may serve Liiiabittiy,.wh6 coul^'a'dvertise Salvation hoae and | ,pants. It "f^ould ,be less '. sacreligious than doing; so by, exhibiting^ Scripttu-al placards. . . — ThTß'nloSi; attentive listener to donates J have.! '^se'en-tfciifr session is a- messenger on th(3 ri^ht-hami ■cbrnerrojf the House, beside xhe Maori meuibers. . He sita'witK!folded;handa, m,out.b. tiad , ears :,open, iistoning' to tie words of. wisdom '/H.clji How from membeVa until he goes asleep. If the wires could ;do itvl^ouldtransmit.a" sketch of tbia fut.elli^^ni; ,'man.-...^.> ,*;' , „•'.,,;. ■ ' \ , : Just another 1 item to connect with the i\off deiparturWf ( When, members ,gd to see the ' ; fj|J;i*u^lic ' Worfcs 'they are' introduced .'to some ™,or&te',^to\Hws' whftt they have \o say, ,ogfi; he" 1 promises!'' to lay their wants .'hofo^e tUc> .•• Euiin3J^is..it not, that memlif.; - g<> i way satisSedtAtrd.ie'jidi'cing at*thd chance 'i of ,Leu\ re- -„ , ! „, "'-'-■. \ '{[^i—Ay^pj^y^pieGQ; of impudence ' t® jVie pf Lands... .-A-mejubev/jof tlfO ;^b^^ ; ei)!rese!fltat|ve.s.-.l3iv'ent lately • .to;. ."koVj lEo^ell^^'li^e^on pondered. hp^i^hou.i^il^

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