SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 11674, 5 February 1902, Page 4

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON, February 5.

Owing to the thick fog, the. Tutanekai, with the Ministerial visitors returning from the diamond jubilee celebrations, was onable to pick up the French Pass lights, so she anchored till daylight. Jt was consequently eleven o'clock before we reached Wellington. Tl * Premier immediately left by special train for Levin.

The suggestion that an autumn session should be held will not be acted oil Ins Premier informed me, with respect to the discharged railway hands, that, the appropriations by Parliament having been exceeded on 'several of the Jines, all work must be suspended thereon till the dose of the present financial year, but after March ol next year's vote can be anticipated. The hands will then be taken on again. The probabilities, however, are that hi the case of the Waipara-Cheviot. Paeroa. and on one of the Southland liner, where the vote has been greatly exceeded, work will not be resumed before further provision nas been made by Parliament, which will not be convened till the usual time in June.

Dr John Hislop, of Dnnedin, has resigned his appointment as one of the Representation Commissioners. The vacancy will soon be filled, and then the Commissioners will begin the work of adjusting the new electoral boundaries.

Six new members will be provided for under last year's Act. It is anticipated that an extra, representative will be provided lithe snfrarbs adjacent to each of the f our centres, and that two additional members will be' given to the North Island, owing to <he increased population in that island. Mr Seddon will leave for Christchurch overland on a farewell visit to the West Coast on Tuesday morning, making Greymonth on Wednesday afternoon. The Premier and Sir J. G. Ward leave for Lyttelton to-morrow to assist at the " send off" of the South Island section cf the Eighth;