Latest Parliamentary News. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1436, 15 September 1881, Page 2

Latest Parliamentary News. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

Railway Construction Bill. Wellington, Last Night. The Kailway Construction Bill pasted the second reading in the Legislative Council on a division by 15 to 9. Hamilton Boundaries.. The Hamilton Boundaries Bill has been sorely contested in ,the Upper House. The impression was it would be thrown out. It is now pretty well assured that it will pass. To-day it came on, and was referred back to a Select Committee with instructions to fir the boundaries definitely. It will be up again for final disposal. The Estimates. The House is again on the Estimates, but as yet no vote has passed. The education vote is under discussion. The Government and Sir J. Vogel. The following is the text of the letter sent to Sir J. Vogel on receipt of the suppressed despatch : —New Zealand, Colonial Secretary's office, Wellington, 6fch June, 1881. Sir, — lam directed to acknowledge the receipt by the last San Francisco mail of your letter of the 27th April last, directed to the Premier. The tone of this letter is so studiously offensive, and it contains so many misrepresentations and misstatements, that the Government refuse to permit it to be filed as a record of the colony, and I am therefore directed to return it to you. I am, &c, G-. S. Cooper.—Sir Juliua Vogel, K.C.M.G.