PARLIAMENTARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1102, 17 July 1879, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

WEDNESDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

(From another Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, last night. Sir W. Fox will bring down a Want of Confidence Motion on the Government administration, leaving the policy, as announched m the speech, untouched. It is also asserted that the Loan and Address will be sanctioned, and passed without protest. The general impression here is that if the Government are defeated, and a dissolution is not granted, Sir W. Fox will* be unablo to form a Ministry that will' be able to hold office. Many of the members who will vote against the G'uvernrnenb will not .support it. A story is rife m town that Mr Hobbs has seceded from the Gjvei'ntneiit, m the 'hope of being made .Native Minister m Ihe next Ministry j but I still think that if the Government is defeated, a dissolution will be granted. A division took place this after-' noon on the steamboat service from' home on Mr Macandrew's motion, and on Mr Wakefield moving an amendment that the debate be adjourned, the amendnent was carried by 38 to 28, Mr Sheehan voting with the majority, to avoid making it a Government defeat. For the motion : Ballance, Barton, J. 0. Brown, Carrington, de Latour, Feldwick, Fisher, Gsorge, Gisborne, Goldie, Grey, Hamlin, Jackson, Joyce, Macandrew, Manders, McMinn, Montgomery, Moss, Nahe, Rees, Reeves, Shanks, Swanson, Thomson, Tole, Wallis, Shrimski, and Fox. For the adjournment : Adams, Atkinson, Baigent, Barff, Betham, Bowen, Brown, Curtis, Uouglas, Fitzroy, Fox, Gibbs, Hart, Henry, Hunter, Hursthouse, Johnston, Williams, Woolcock, Macfarlane, McLean, Morris, MurrayAynsley, Oliver, Ormond, Eichardson, Rolleston, Russell, Saunders, Seymour, Shceban, Stevens, Studholm, Sutton, Tawihi, Wakefield, and Whitaker. Henari Tomiona, a- half-biofcher of Karaitiaua, is elected for East Coast against Henari Matua, the Government candidate. In the Council to-day, Mr Waterhouse complained that some members last year left their accounts at Bellamy's unsettled.