POLITICAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2065, 26 June 1896, Page 3

POLITICAL.

"The vacant Attorney-Generalship 'remains unfilled. Mr Guinness may, •however, be regarded as in the running for ibis position. ~ It is rumoured that Mr Cadman is - desirous at -no distent date of resigning from the Ministry, and that in the event •of his dbing so, Mr McGowan will receive his portfolio. The 'Local Government Biil is much the same as last year. The eecond 'reading will, m> doubt, be carried by a •fair majority, but the' Bill will probably ! not be taken into the Committee stages, as their are a great many ckuses, and most of them -would lead to debate. The matter will, no doubt, be before the ' country at the next election. Mr Collins' Divorce Bill provides that any wife m.y present a petition to the Court praying for a disoktion •of her marriage upon any ground on: which her husband may petition for a •Jivorce, and that Uprights and 'responsibilities of husband and wife shall, for the purpose of the said Act,'be equal. The Horn J. G. Ward was -a most he*rty reception at Invercargiil and the Blufi.

The County Council Conference sent delegates to the Premier re tbe Local 'Government Bill. Mr M'Millan said that the 'Premie? would meet the Conference and the people of the colony ifhe •would drop the idea of extending the * franchise ra country districts. Mr Keddon promised to give the views of the Cenference every consideration.