THE LOBBIES. [FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1396, 14 June 1881, Page 2

THE LOBBIES. [FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER .]

The" Redistribution of Seats. Wellington, Last Night. A tat.li. has been punted showing the piOjjoition of lepresentation to which each electoral district in the colony would be entitled on the basis of population. On the assumption of a total representation of ninety membeis, the population of all tlie electorates being returned as 150, 0(5i poisons, taking 10) as the exact standai d of propoi tionate representation, Waipa, winch lias 4714 inhabitants, stands as 0 - 87 (nought decimal 87), and Waikato, with a population of 4774, sta.idb as 0 SS (nought decimal 8S), both being somewhat below the average, though not enough to warrant any change m the matter of agqiesiate representation. Vlvo! ding to population of the different piownual distuots, Auckland will lemain as, lti^ with eighteen members : Taranaki, which has. within 235 of 1500 people, will & till have three members ; Hawke's Bay is well over the average for itb tluee members ; Marlborough will lose one man ; Nelson, three at least, Westland oul; Canterbnry gains m\ nieuibeiu, andOtago nearly four. Total a, Mr (Jibboi ne's constituency, only iiumbeis22ol peisons, while Collmgwood (Mr (iibbs), has but 1645. Mr Delatour and Mi Pyko (Mount Tda and Dunstan) are hopelessly out of the running, with s'idS, and GSSI rebpectively. Of oourss it must be lemeinbcied th.it this estimate is made out stuctly upon the basis of repicsentation according to population, and does not take into account any allowance tli.it may be made for extra allow ances of repiesentatioti for country dibtucts, a puticiple which it is devoutly to be hoped will be insisted on by the lloithc.

The Address-in-Reply. Mr Fulton has finally been chosen to bueoiul the Ad<liess-m- Reply.