PARLIAMENTARY

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 150, 28 July 1883, Page 6

PARLIAMENTARY

f. ■mc'-D'-"' ;■ Feom Oub Special Correspondent. - < , $ Wellington, Thxirsday. ' . jjf— Mipkau Jones put in all appearance to-day. — Hiint has not, yet, been. paid his £100,. dam- ' ages'. -' • j '->'-■' :"-. ' ' ' i;— iEhojrhe's': pay- is "a 'thorny- : Pyke says, in Luckie's side. , „. .-,.-.,,, ..* > ■ ■ : • ; — i-There is 1 no dotiljt but 1 vchai Sir George Grey after, all runs the Parliamentary shovr. — Monday was the .i!3rd of July,, and -we had twenty-one "wet days' out 'of the t^Venty-three. '—^It is 'said that whisky had : something to do ; with the ;6tone-vrallin£ on Saturday morning. — Quite an irruption of TaranaM me.n has set ;in,j |iidiini.eniibers .sife are ■afoot? Ij ll ' j *.l - ' ■'? '■ : >'' i ■' — Bryco -will not prosecutp .Ballance for libel, • it is -Said,' "unless the ■ Government guarantee the . COStK. ' — Hall's gridirons aro. up in. the market since, he | was' offered' £105;00;0 for 'the one ho Mi beMnd him. — People saj- Swahson: conld have carried his vote to reduce the Estimates had he tried and touted for votes. — There was no lobbbydng over the Bill De Lautottr had in charge for theN.Z. Land Settlement Company. „ .; . , —Some of the land the Manawatu Rnilway Company bought for less than ten shillings an acre, they have been offered ten pounds for, I am informed, and refused 'the offer.

;.: —-Mr Cfaa?le*ffl^B^eV%|B^^c^ the offer to

I, have an idea that before long an insurance fcompany "will bo found doing good business at 'Goodson's Arcade. , ! —I am npt.at all certain,, singula-r tp pay, that the. (rflTernment : have.,a large tinajority in the. Legislative Council. ■' . " . 5 Sir Ge,orge. Whitiaor.Q's' illegal land transaction on the East' Coast 'has riot tended io increase his piety, ,or improve his temper. ' . Adam Porter says he can make out a good base. I told him most inon who came from the Thames cnn. • • ; 1 Pyk« says B'ryceV foot must be far larger than Res »W' Wood's because Vhjsri. he "puts it <lown ;>< 'he. covers py«r ell his colleagues. . ' i-rSaunrlers, speaking at Ashburion, said; the EgtiuiateK could' be reduced', not fifty' thousand, but to five bjU»dved .tkousand a-ycar by the end of the present decade. % ' it is now widely aeknoTrledp;eclthat Sir George Grey was ft tar better judge of Luckie'« character than Ballance, and that GK >I. Reed'knewthe man better than teither: '..'.. It has been gravely asserted here time after time that Wellington ( , would be far more prosperous if tha seat of Government were removed, and the. jnhabit;ants, of the district induced or compelled to work for ' a living^like. those in other places, instead of hanging on to the skirts of ProVidence.^ ; Itt, this. itia.ttop.j '■? however, they l^Bei^bie' tte. people of ; , „ , , -

"Beat 'ftffitiffiM Sir??&rsb,ttv ..^p^ttrjitv^ft^paKi' noticec!,,' &irt'. %vy=' 'supprt\<sed\ttie ; ; :w^ole^|ii||| evidence beforo/fthe Coninnssf^^'^;;;^^:^^^^^ —I was told.t&jat Robert Cp6pßr-claitns:±%^Mf the.(?isbpms t prs,nte sailed i^f^^C^p^^^a.^ wise man. Ho \lsp4n"dt i' a sbls v pui/^s>^^^,."; clown to u.ustamped*Vpap'er. - -,;-.• V,;!^?,)^/^;'^ — There was a ir^'eat {'utter aiajopg'''tn6{^sres^l'if doves last ■■v.okwhW) -* beanie known :tna# : s^ss members of the dennj Mentis '%»cl thek:W(ijr^||^ the Ladies' Gallevr : 1 '-'.■-■ vbn/sihco'liasvbe^l^; "Wab!gi&fihem -)>■.: \ Hi/net.- ? "~; : , ".#?*M«JBjjßfc — TheßGPovcrriii!:-):. s;-. ;-,iy;.. assort JJBtfMP^:^ took a bath and put on '^^gdft^ 01 '" I '^?^^^^ same day he had\Ms.'^Yur .ewf . Opppsitiq^^? whips say the story* -is' a; ; ;?£pp; devised .to" $$**$$ credit for the Native Minister!- ''. ',-■■■ 'l^Y'r'/r —At the present rate of j)«reasp in thannrdlje'r';-!^ and pay of the Civil Servi^. it will abporbViihei^ whole of the revenue of the] Colony, leaving ■the'^j interest on. the. .debt to .k<( defrayed out f o|^a^ : ->ii loan, that i's; J rnil|ss the mnlt\ip!icatio» of "o^ce|s ; - y . and salaries ceaso. | \ ■' :> '.'\)'S' —Yet another theoi~- ot Gbvernmom -was^r^c^; pounded also to-day, br 1 i'.--^-^'- by :i north' erii:V / man. His prciu-sai ■■ * ■•' Parliain.ent'. f o- T v , get her only wbcriO- : -f '-■■■ n'ht tiiey ,vrere ;;,".• wanted ; also slop • ".:>. ■ i :,i ; ■ - -omided*- Legi^i lation. • . t .•■'■.:•■ ,;J--t j —"When the Xr^ive'Larrf Ssttieiriont Coinjiim^,:;: withdrew their Bill altoyUhar. the shadow'^as^A, lifted from : Mors\ r-oniitfcsia'ice, but/'^kfen'".thl^ Ministerial prq>o.=a],s .^is. t^ Nitivo Land Legij^»^; : < : tion leaked out, a darkness palpable was 'Hf>e£p'j hanging over the faces of» Vfce iau-i. , : ■•■ ■<;' ■;/ •:^;.;;, —For 12 or l;-> year., t^-e Public Accounts G!6fli^>; ; j mittee have ncglectpd/ tLoir most imporfanfcA" duties, viz., cxamininff x*i>c pnh]i<i aeeoiuit.B>'lt4«( l-"'--said that the pobfc ia po} firmly wedged into, the '.; members'' heads, thai iV onnnqt. find a vrafr toxtyct; At the meeting? la A Veek of the Commit.te^. 1 ; Atkinson said he«as not- going, to act as;aV;;; : schoolmaster to teßp men how. to. nnderstahd-vi p-nblic accounts. '^1 ' . '. ■'• ,' ■ : :- ? . 1 -r-I see the reckoning at last has come b.omje> " to the Canterbury men\ Last year they. h?id ttv&,o v & , pay double the" amount for charitable aid' tp,^ either Otago or An^klatf^- There is no dopbi;^: about the poor rem-iining wth them. There aro;,y> three classes there- —the rfich, the Htrnggliiig:^ ;■ and those fighting for food. \?o this end hns'thp^,,Church of England settlenio^ already.. eom<£ ; ..-;,; The Canterbui-y 'ruling pas.«ion b.d^sbe<?a to fon^d.^v families, forgetting all th« while that^wTe_axr c6;^ ancient gents but gardeners." ditchers,, gfep &' aTti ~">;.'. makers, who hold up Adam.-. professioisLf~*' ! *^fot' , — I heard a curious story on Siinday'j^Pnt thei % \ Duke of Albany. It is thai '" l.; : ' s, -'Si i complete suit of chamois leaui =•.■■>•. ..-!.-•. skin, -.if \ as a protection to his, skin, su: T :■'• _: as '^ he does fjora the hereditary maL-uly'd^lus laniily^T I should not have mentioned this canßd, but for. .7 seeing in ;u: Euyli^h paper which cfßae to handl f; by Ififl ' iv „i.il the following statemeW^made;?!^:';;!'., I' discufsing the proposed Governorshipj|f CanaaS* (■!•;, ! The siau-mett is th;:t. v - hi is a e6nfl,r^^Hnyalia^ j and r.ever can bo oth erwi.sfl^^VheQ 'fjjHfc^ ,' j"^/ : ''. I a.iTn or lifts, hii- lc^. sores MßKß^tj^^B^^^^^/^, coi; fined to li:;-' i-oc^n.'' Canif-vbnry to rcdu'-c- th^^P^Wßg^iatiOEß' "It: 'ff ■jr ih.'.t vohoii -the G+ueral Assembly,. j^eonVe^eiEiv^ the ypiT.kc-]'. Si-rgeant-at-Anuß, and messen^eSK/^ j liloin? awnible. Ministers on; , I thi > oe.dajf.a we^k. '•}'£ I are not to make certain proposals 'as to finance-,;?;. legislation. &«.. which the, Speaker yfi^^»nßmitl|3ri:?, wire thru u<rb out the Colony, using the-;Press¥;-| Ahsociaticm for that purpose,, and/ w.hf.n.,|piember». : f.f lur.e xuado ujv their minds howHo vote' they^'-?, I will sjiv l! nye ' ! or "no " by . w-jj-0^ ... Thjs ..would.^), I f-'ave nil the turmoil, corruption, and' log-rbllisg,':^ which h-jw prevail in Wellington. • i; - yi - {y-f%