POLITICAL NOTES. ADDRESS-IN-REPLY DEBATE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 8

POLITICAL NOTES. ADDRESS-IN-REPLY DEBATE.

J A COMPLAINT. t, The actual business of the session will " $ommence to-morrow night with • th# debate. With empty Robbies there are not many indications %t interact in Parliamentary matters, |(fnd it is even now a pure matter of Speculation as to whether the debate will last two days or' two weeks. The Leader <&f theGripOsttjon will follow the mover Smd seconder, but his chance will not,' |n all probability, come until after the •Jupper adjournment. What he has to <*ay will probably depend to a very 3»rg& extent on what has gone before, ithrt the general opinion is that the larger 3ju6ject9 will not be dealt with to any * great extent until Sir Joseph Ward re- . '%urn« from England. After his return, ■$, is understood, the Opposition will Jeel more at liberty to open up discusigion on matters which require, the pre•pence of the Prjnw Minister to enable m full and searching enquiry to be made, .Oh the other hand, the Government has ■tilready made it quite clear that it has a, sufficient number of Bills ready in the Svent of the Address-in-Reply debate falling through at any moment, and it '36' quite possible that a certain amdunt of actual work will have been transacted '% Sir' Joseph Ward's return." t In this connection, however, it k iwdrthy of remark that the Opposition ia ♦iot inclined to permit Imperial affaire *&> overshadow and prevent the discusfiion of those purely local affairs which wave been so prominently before the , <|oim*fy during the recess, and on which $b' much depends during the genera), gleet-ion, -r'lt apj>e&rs, in fact, that th&y Aoiwider that the cause of Imperialism 4jfcj lost 1 rather than gained as the result «jfthe Imperial Conference, and they Ire not prepared to allow its importtStica to outweigh the importance to "♦hem of the consideration of Dominion , IffaiM. ' - Strong complaint is being made by ■ Hie Opposition as to -the leaking that |}M takea place in regard to the alteration of electoral boundaries that will 4Sefltilt from the decisions of the Repre- ■ Mentation Commissioners. In the past, ■/they state, the results were never dis'«k*ed until* the report was presented «t» Parliament through the Governor, -And they suggest that Minister* ate ftcguiring^ information,, on the subject • and using 1 it for electoral purposes. They •will probably have a , good deal, to say sibottt it when the report of* the ' Com* missiorier's comes up for discussion, in .the- Home. —— —§———■■■