PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 158, 7 July 1896, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

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Wellington, this day. SHORT POSTAGE.

Two or thraa members »ro complaining thab correspondents writing them on public buninosa are in the habit of »ob akkaching sufficient postage, which of course these unfortunate members have to make good, as tha Postal Department extracts fines from the jusb as well aa the unjuat.

STATE PAWN SHOPS,

Alarmed by the probability of the establishment of State pawnshops, a well-known pawnbroker hero has intimated thab if at any time » pcrion who has pledged an article of clothing, etc., ab his establishment, brings a nofae from the Benevolent) Trdsteea vouching that the bearer is in indigent circumstances, he will remib the interest.

THE RADICAL PARTY.

Though the Radical Party in bba House baa given up all idea of organiiing fer Parliamentary purposes, I learn thab before the session is over a lino of action will be agreed upon for placing a Radical platform before the elector?. Exactly what tkis line of action will be has nob yet been decided. The present strength of the Radical parky has been carefully computed ab fourteen, and ib is averred bhab seven or eighb other Liberals are prepared to throw in their lob with the advanced parby.