Latest Parliamentary News. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1434, 10 September 1881, Page 2

Latest Parliamentary News. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

. In Earnest. Wellington, Last Night. Parliament now appears to have gone into a kind of "galloping consumption," displaying a capacity for consulting business in striking contrast with the doings of the past few weeks. In addition to the ordinary sittings, which include Monday, two morning sittings commencing at 11 a.m. take place. Then again the announcement was made to-day that in addition to the usual sitting of the House, on Monday next a morning sitting would be held for the despatch of Government business. A goodly number of bills have progressed towards the third reading, which, not very long since, were by common consent set down for disposal and despatch amongst the slaughter of the innocents. Indeed, we are now beginning to be hopeful that the session will not after all prove to be as barren of results as was at one time predicted. That we have entered upon the beginning of the end there cannot be a doubt. The air of serious determination which pervades the House is indicative of that fact ; and I am not far out of my reckoning when I say that the close of next week will see the close of the present Parliament, the formal prorogation in all probability being reserved for the following Tuesday. It is almost impossible under such circumstances to keep the New Zealand Parliament in session more than twelve, or at most fourteen weeks. Besidps the natural disinclination of members to remain in Wellington beyond, that period, there are cogent reasons arising out of the peculiar circumstances of the case which tend to quicken hon. members' appetites for getting home. The Future. From all parts of the colony, south as well as north, we hear that candidates for political honours in the forthcoming election are out on the war trail, and, naturally enough, sitting members are getting anxious about the safety of their seats. I presume this is just what is to be expected ; at the same time I can tell constituencies that they are acting most unfaiily to themselves in encouraging the pretentions of these prowlers. You will observe I do not speak of the injustice to the sitting candidate, knowing, as I do, that it is with constituencies as it is with individuals | gratitude is a sense of favours yet to come. The injustice constituencies inflict upon themselves is this : local works appropriations are left over to the last, and in districts where these prowlers are encouraged the claims of the sitting members are greatly weakened in the estimation of the Government, in consideration of the fact that it is not at all improbable a new king may arise who knows not Joseph. I make this suggestion in the hope that the Waikato electors will take this aspect of the question seriously to heart, and not, either actively or passively, blind themselves to their own personal interests. There are still the district railway lines, the clearing out of the Waipa river, and a host of other appropriations which have to be finally settled before the prosecution of the work can be called an assured fact. In Committee to-day, the Railway Authorisation Bill was read a second time, and stands committed for Monday, Waikato Railways. The member for Clutha made a dead stand against the Hamilton-Cambridge schedule, and a host of others took up the cry and wished to know why this work should have a preference over other works, more especially the works in which they were personally interested. The notorious Otago Central, for instance, was pitted against it, and one or two West Coast lines were put forward as works of far greater moment than that in the Waikato. The Premier, however, stuck hard and fast to the Waikato interest, and, aided by a. few judicious remarks interposed by the district members, as also by Mr Moss, the motion for the second reading was passed with a large majority. The Railways Construction and a Lands Bill, contrary to general expectation, is also to go on, its commit* tal being on the Order Paper for to-night With these two measures to work upon, Waikato should have no real cause for complaint so far as railway worka prospects are concerned.

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