LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 857, 27 August 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(from OUK OWN COERESPONnENT.)

THE STONEWALLERS. , Wellington, August 27. * Tlie Btonewallers effectually blocked the debate on the Representation Bill yesterday by moving > anil speaking to motions on other matters. . The Premier has declared that the Government will not conform to the desire of the minority,

and has tabled a long series of motions for the : adoption of a system identical with that introduced ir\ the House of. Commons during the Irish difficulty. A general consensus of opinion isthaijthe Premier lias been too precipitate, and that the system proposed is not adaptable to a small Assembly without material modification,

The stonewallers will hold a caucus today and to-morrow, TEE LORDS, A grave scandal has arisen in the Upper House. Waterhouso lias raised a question of privilege as to a certain member last session selling his clianoe of an honorarium to a member of the Lower House, and a Seleot Committee has been appointed to examine and report. A message will be sent to the Lowor House, asking tlmt Richard Reeves and J. 0. Brovyn be per? njitted to giye evidence, There is little doijbt that one or both these gentlemen were in negotiation with Oanipbell and Woods of the Upper House, and that one honorarium pa? actually bought, when the doubt existed as to what the actual amount would bo. The other, it is said, was sold, but payment to order was afterwards stopped.

NOVEL RAFFLE. Auckland. 4 new way of obtaining employment was Revised "by a genius nan)ei| He raffled himself at twenty members at four shillings eacji, the winner to have his a pr|man for fourteen days. Nijeson. An pldprly ipn Mnipd Tho WQB t opposed to I |avg comg from Wellington, dropped dead in the street yesterday. From a letter found in his pocket, he has a son at Hawera.