PARLIAMENTARY NOTES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Review of the Session. Wellington, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1591, 14 September 1882, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Review of the Session. Wellington, Last Night.

The session is now virtually ended. Yesterday there was an erratic sitting froir 10 to 5 with frequent adjournment-, waiting the ariival of business from the Upper House. To-day the House met for -a few minutes at 10, and after disposing of one or two matters, Major Atkinson announced that the business uas now completed, and the formal adjournment would take place at 4 p.m. on Friday, to which day the House stands adjourned. Members have been dispersing rapidly for the last week or ten days. Yesterday and to-day they have been trooping off in shoals, few remaining with the exception of those living in the immediate neighborhood. Messrs Whitaker and Whyte leave on Saturday, and will reach Waikata early next week. Now that the poor play is over, a word may be stated in review of the session. It has been in many respects a distinctive one, and although tedious, a fair amount of useful work has been accomplished. At the outset it promised to be a fairly good, intelligent Parliament, and the new members, as a whole, displayed an aptitude for business, coupled with faculty for expressing their opinions, rather above the average. Of couise there were exceptions to the rule, two or three rough vulgar creatures stamping themselves nincompoops from the outset. The former, however, did not improve upon more lengthened acquaintance. It would now seem as if they came up to the scratch primed with the few stock fads, and on exhausting these they sank down below mediocrity. Then again, party lines were but faintly defined from the outset, and it soon became apparent the Opposition was very badly officered. One attempt after another -to consolidate the party failed, -fold in that state of things they • became disunited, and the Opposition camp followers deserted wholesale, going over to the ranks of the enemy. Meantime Government ws not slow to avail itself of opportunities, and I venture to say it has got through more real business than it ever expected to do in the early part of the session. On the Government side it has not been all plain sailing. The Cabinet itself is known to have had its fair share of trials. Mr , Bryce has developed into a perfect nuisance, and it is a wellknown fact that but for the greatest possible' tact and forbearance on the part of his colleagues there woulft havte been Bcatitfals ft,km,,tb those enacted in the Grey Government some years ago, when the Treas.urerjw«i kicked downstairs, s.