PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 157, 6 July 1896, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

TEffi REPRESHNTATION QUESTION-

(BY TELEGRAPH—PABLJASTKNTARY KP

FOSTER.)

Wellington, this day.. • The Representation Question ia expected to i prove a. fruitful source of debate in the ; House. Ib is held that in a fair re-arrange- ] menb three members ought to bo deducted i from the South Island and given to the - North. Obago ought to lose one member, i Canterbury one, and Nelson, Marlborougb, > and VVeatland, one- between- them. One member should be added to Auckland, and , the other bwo distributed between Welling- ( ton, Taranaki, and Hawke'« Ray. Ib is ; safe to predict the House will not tanction < any increase, but will insist on automatic i re-distribution in terms of the Act. i

Later,

Tha Representation. Bill ia nob yet circulated, bub it is definitely etated ib will not propose any addition to the number of seats, merely providing for redistribution and for.readjaß.tmeD.tof the quota,

MORNING SITTINGS

Lobby rumour has ib thab all hope o! morning sittings is..just now ab an end owing to the difficulty of fixing the hour of adjournment*....

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

The Financial Statement is expected to be down on Friday week. ...

HANSARD APPOINTMENT.

The appointment of Messrs Kay, Hyde« and Grey to the Hansard Staff, has been decided upon by the Government. They will enter upon their duties to-morrow on probation in terms of the Reporting Committees recommendation.

PETITIONS.

Petitions have been presented by Mr Lawry, on behalf of John Elliobb.praying for compensation for loss sustained ; by Capb. Russell, on behalf of' Simon Fraser, who prays for a reward as discoverer of a goldfield ; by Mr Murray on behalf of Joe. Hemphill, chairman of the North Auckland Railway Committee, asking for furtherextenaion of the railway.nortKwarcis from Auckland; by the Hon. Thompson, on behalf of William Westney and 17 others, objecting to the clause in Wesleyan Methodisti: iQhurch Property Trust Act Amendment) Bill repealing Section 3 of the Amendment Act of 1892.

JOTTINGS,

The Postmaster-General is being approached by Mr Lawry respecting the establishment of a telephone bureau in a public office in the borough of Parnell. Mr Maasey is approaching the Minister for Agriculture in connection with permission being granted to allow vine cuttings from the Uovernmenb gardens, Sydney, with a guarantee that they are free from phylloxera, to be landed in Auckland, without being sent to Wellington for examination.

A lighfc line of railway between Coromandel and Kuaotunu is being agitated for by Mr McGowan. The ex-Colonial Treasurer, Mr Ward, is to be in Wellington on Wednesday.