NOTES ON PARLIAMENT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3514, 20 October 1868, Page 5

NOTES ON PARLIAMENT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

> Wellington, October 12. BILLS are now bf ing Lurried through both chamber! with almost; railroad «-p«d, and the few members \rho ate l«ffc here we anxious to bring the sefisiou to an wrfy close. - Vogel, Bell, and a great number of membfcMi hare gnn« to their home*, and, for a time, at ltasfc, tbr political fight ii over. Mr. George Macfarlao, the Member for Lyttelton, and a solicitor there, died«*t the Club on Friday oigbt. He bad been ill for about a fortnight of low fever. He is rery irncb regntfced as a clever, well-educated, and amiable man. i Me ■wad a consistent follower of Mr. Fox -but never troubled, the Howe in the talking line. ;Mr, Bolfeiton,' SuftfTiutfndej.t of Canterbury, ia alio>ill of thxame kind of feVer," and, although ■aid to be 'recovering, he U not yet out of dangc* Mr. Mkofarlan is to-be bilrird^o-mor'row. * The Bullofc Bill has come to grief in the Lords, as I expected -it* wouldi : Tbey decided against iti>y 9t» 5. _ - - , The inhabitants of Rff e rton bave presented a petition asking foi; .the/ \ep»ratjon _of their district/from Southland, au'd a co'nttrtut.on similar to that proTided for Timaruand Gladstone by the Act of last lessioo.^ The Timartrptople, V.y-the-hy, have declined to elect a member to Tepre^ent their dittrict in the Canterbury Provincial Council. 1 hey B.iy; it is no me doing so. ' - ' " I see a eorrtspondenft; signing himself "Mepbistopbilei,'' ateorises me«l>mi^udtation in hiy S'fim'maiy' of Major Atkinson's speech. The error, if it were 1 one, «M on the part of the gall»nt Major, not on mine,