PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 9187, 11 August 1880, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

[Br, Electeic Telegraph.]

(From our Own Correspondent. WEiii.ijfqToif, August 10. Quite a flew diversion has been raised by "the question qf Local ' Self-govern-ment, and some profess to see a resurrection of Provincialism on it. Mr Moss is the originator. Of course it will all end in smoke. The Public Accounts Committee have been industriously engaged for some time in endeavouring to find put all about that unauthorised £^0Q paid to Mj: Ree's, but have not made much by the operation as yet. It appears that when Mr Rees was asked if he knew whether it was public money he was receiving, ho said he really did not know. He could not remember. Then they produced a Government vqupher. beaming hig signature. He recognised the handwriting, but could not recollect the circumstance. The lapse of time was considerable, and in the meantime he had had so' much to think about. It was non «ti rec*rdo. In noticing the political career -of Sir Arthur Gordon, the Times saya he was offered tlie Governorship of the Capo, but declined. The information is supposed £0 haVe pome from Sir G. Grpy, who is intimate wifh S,ir Arthur Cjordon; but tho Chronicle wants to know how the latter (Gordon) was commuuica,ted with, there being no cable to Fiji. It lqoks as though Mr Sheehan was postponing the grand washing day wifin his character is to be boiled and bleached, and then wrapped up in a moral pockethandkerchief. It is hot work between him and Sir W. Fox aad Mr Wakefield in the Native Affairs Committee over that Gittoa business, which is not finished yejj. Although it is two against one, Mi' Slieeh.a'n'k,as held &? o\VR BMU-.

fully ; but the end. is not yet. I think the sympathy of Government is with. Mr Sheehau. There is quite a difference of opinion in the whole Cabinet over the Native Land Bill — not only between Mr Bryce and all tho rest. It appears the bill is purely one of Mr Bryce'a fads, further particulars arc hard to obtain. Mr Wilson, in the Legislative Council, has given notice to ask for a return of all moneys paid Sir Julius Yogel since 1869 — no matter for what. Sir Arthur Gordon, who is now taking a trip amongst the islands, is expected here almost as soon as Sir Hercules is ready to depart. The proposed new electorates are not received as perfectly satisfactory.