POLITICAL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3743, 14 July 1883, Page 3

POLITICAL NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.] [VROM OUR OAVN CORRESPONDENT.] AVellington, This day. Mr M. AY. Green has gone over to the Ministry, and to ease his conscience gavo notice of this to both AVhips, so that ho might be paired for the division on the Montgomery resolutions. Tho Order Paper is uoav assuming day by day a formidable document, as it is constantly being increased and no reductions taking place. Tho folloAving returns, showing the amount of Charitable Aid distributed in each provincial district during the year ending ,31st March, 1883, has been published:—Auckland, £0593 12s lid; Taranaki, £798 15s2d; Wellington, £31084sld; Hawke's Bay, £070 Is 9d; Marlborough,

£94 12s 9d ; Nelson, £3274 3s Id ; Westland, £982 3s 3d; Canterbury, £13,409 7s; Otago, £5039 19s 4d; total, £34,360 19s 4d. The division on Mr Montgomery's local government resolutions, Avhich avus to have taken place on AVednesday first, and then positively on Thursday, and Avhich yet, after the dinner hour, avus thought likely to last well into next week, actually took place at an early hour this morning. I anticipated the Government would have bad a majority of twelve. The actual majority was ten, and every vote was accounted for, which is •something to be proud of. Lust night Avas chiefly remarkable for a sharp passage of arms between Mr AVynn-AVilliams and Mr Holmes, calling for the Speaker's interference. The" Opposition profess themselves jubilant at the result. My own opinion is that the subject will be again brought forward by them next session, and that then they will take it as the leading feature for the Opposition programme for the general election. To abstract resolutions tlicvmnybind themselves, but Avhcn the matter of details come to be dealt with the difficulty will begin, for no tAvo of the thirty-five speakers or so on the resolutions agree in their idea of Avhat is required. MiBracken favors a large number of States similar to the United States. He is one extreme, Avhile others consider all that is necessary is that Cook's Straits should separate tlie two different Legistures._ The financial aspect—perhaps the most important of all—Avas kept carefully in the background.