POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE,
[From a Correspondent.] -j Wellington, Friday. The approaching session of Parliament is beginning to engage attention, and a good deal of interest is being excited by the expected proposals of the Ministry. That, they are not altogether united among themselves is admitted, and the appointment of Mr Luckie is still unsettled, and likely to occupy the attention of the House. The threatened resignation of Mr Stout is .believed to have some connection with these differences, although his friends, strenuously deny it. His resignation just now would be a serious blow to the Cabinet, and would probably necessitate a reconstruction of the Ministry.
The programme of business, as far as I have been able to learn, will be this: After the election of Speaker, Mr Ballance will bring down a new Loan Bill, and ask the House to assent to it at once, on the ground of the pressing financial necessities of the colony. He will ask that the allocation of any surplus, not required to finish the contracts for public woeks now in hand, shall be made at a later period in the session, when the Estimates are brought on. "What the amount of the loan : -will be, has not been settled. At first it was suggested that power should be taken to raise £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 to complete the public works scheme, and put an end to further loans for some time. The proposal was, I believe, to float the loan in two instalments, one of £3,000,000 immediately, and the balance in eighteen months, or two years. Now, rumour says that the total amount of the loan will be £3,000,000.
A new Representation Bill will be introtroduced as one of the first measures, and, from what has leaked out of its provisions, it is likely to occasion a strong fight. Most of the bills to bo introduced are in a forward state, and the Ministry are determined to force on a dissolution if they cannot command a working majority.
Rumour says that the Chairmanship of Committees will occasion some dituculty. Mr Seymour, Mr Bryce, Mr Bunny, and Mr Hamlin are each named for the position, but no definite decision is likely to be arrived at until the meeting of the Assembly.—' New Zealand Herald.'
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1092, 24 June 1879, Page 2
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