IN THE LOBBIES. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH:] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1250, 3 July 1880, Page 3

IN THE LOBBIES. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH:] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Last Night.

Crombie-Brown has been bowled out. The great West Coast swamp bubble lias burst, and the f am.ous war correspondent of the Auckland Herald and Lyttelton Times, who, judging by his own narrative of his exploits, has seen every fight from the Crimea downward, and ought to be somewhere over eighty years old, has been demonstrated to have never been near enough to the front to know whether the advance guard encountered a swamp or not. He said they did, and he wrote so to his unsuspecting patrons. It was denied again and again by a Minister, and re-asp' .*ted by the audacious special and hi' -lies in the House, so that a subscript* a was raised, and Hamlin was sent- j the seat of operations to make Bryce at a liar. But, behold ! — he was ser' to curse, and he returned to bless. Hj made a clean breast of it in the House, stating moßt emphatically that there wrs no swamp at all, and no road constructed that was useless. The road was a good one from end to end. I wonder how the great New Zealand Dr Kussell likes this. The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill is exor. rising the Upper House greatly. The debate will be renewed on Tuesday, when a great fight is expected. McCaughan is working hard to get the Bill through, but the sister now trembles in the Jbialance. The Government majority of 15 is really 13, as Ireland and J. B. Fisher did not vote. Mr Whyte got leave to-day as for Tuesday last on account of bickness. The Licensing Bill is now on, and Fox and Speight are having it all their own way in a regular teetotal carnival. There will be a Government caucus tomorrow. I think Government will agree to £150,000 reduction.