WELLINGTON NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8584, 11 September 1893, Page 5

WELLINGTON NOTES.

September 10. The Customs Duties collected at Wellington for the week ended yesterday was £11,854 2s lid, the largest week's takings on record. The Beer Duty paid in the same period was £75 lie 9d. Lord Onsiow has written to the Mayor of Wellington : " I saw with great pleasure that Wellington had decided to make application to the London market for means to carry out a system of drainage, and 1 congratulate you on the success which has attended it. lam largely an investor in tha new loan, which I think is tho best testimony of my opinion of it as a reality." Under the heading of" Hopes and Fears " last night's Press says: "It is easy to distinguish advocates from opponents ou Woman's Suffrage to-day ; the one party is beaming with smiles, the other despondent and wearing the willow, and hope has fled from them. Not, perhaps, altogether, for they look forward to another struggle on the discussion on the resolution which is on the top of the Order Paper. It i 3 said that if any possible method of still slaughtering the Bill i 3 to be found, the Premier will grasp it. The only available means, however, is for him to ride for a fall and make it a Government' question, and go to the country on it if beaten. It is no secret that there is not a siugle member of the Government but hates the woman's suffrage in his heart, and it is also a certainty that with the women at the polls in the ensuing election Sir Robert Stout would come back with more followers than Mr Seddon. The question is whether Mr Seddon's love of power will prevail over his desire to kill the Bill. He evidently feels sore about yesterday's calamity. In all the history of Parliament it has been noticed that he could, under crushing defeats, carry a jaunty look and a smile over a sore heart", but last night he was visibly affected and crumpled up. Probably by Monday his latent power will again blaze up, but with what results is perhaps not yet known even to himself."