POLITICAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1671, 19 July 1892, Page 2

POLITICAL.

[By Telegraph.]

[From our own Correspondent.]

Wellington, July 18

The financial debate will be continued to-morrow. Mr Allen will have the galleries at 7.30, and be will be trailed by the member for Heathcote. It is expected that the debate will last till the end of next week, and afterwards the House will resume tho business of the session. Tho proceedings in tho Upper House having disclosed the fact that some of the Akaro* Railway Reserves have been sold for scrip, instead of cash, your member will ask the Minister for Lands on Friday next the name of the person exorcising such scrip, from whom did he purchase the same, and what steps will the Government take to see that tho Akaroa Railway Trust is reimbursed to the extent of some £3000 or £4000. The Wesleyans Methodist Trust Bill will be considered in Committee in the Piivate Bill Office to-morrow at 10 a.m. From a porusil of Auckland papers, and the rumors to be heard in the lobbies, it is possible tbe Bill will have to be amended in Committee, otherwise opposition may appear when the Premier moves the third reading. As you know, tho Bill seeks to do away with jtinermt system of pastors. Clause 3 provides that the New Zealand Conference may, from time to time, appoint any of its members to the same circuit or office year by year, successively, for any number of years. One of your northern contemporaries characterises tho Bill as ' a crude and ill advised measuie.'