The Premier Interviewed.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 174, 26 January 1897, Page 2

The Premier Interviewed.

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, This Day. The Premier interviewed by the Star said be expected to return early in March. Parliament would be summoned as usual in June. Lord Glasgow and himself had parted on the most friendly terms. The Agent-General has been requested to ask the Colonial office to communicate with the New Zealand Government before tho selection of the next governor but nothing will be done till Lord Glasgow has left the colony. Sir M. O'Rorke would be the Government nominee for the Speakerahip, but no decision would be come to respecting the Chairmanship of Committees till be had seen who the candidates were. Effect would be given to the recommendation of the Goldfields Committee by moving round all Stipendiary Magistrates. The Government hoped before the session began to have acquired land for working villages adjacent to the four large centres. The financial position was the beat for the last decade. He anticipated a surplus of £380,000 to £300,000, despite concessions during the year. Railways would show an increase of one hundred thousand pounds at least. H6 defended the sale of the Bushy Park estate, which, like other properties sold by the Realisation Board during the recess, brought a price in excess of last valuation.