POLITICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 71, 24 November 1887, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

(OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, yesterday. There is still very little doing here th , would be of any interest to Gisborne peop e. Ordinary Bills from different localities have been passed through various stages, but though that will concern each piked from which they come, only those places will be interested. There was a probability of the Gisborne Harbor Bill coming forward on Monday night, but it was too far back on the Order paper. It has a better chance o> being dealt with on Thursday night, and, as far as I can ascertain, it has every prospect of getting through without material alteration. This, however, is by no means a certainty, as members have been disciplined to look pretty keenly into anything that has a harbor in the background. There seem to have been more blunders made over these jobs than their importance warrants. It will be a relief to members when these Harbor Bills are done with. The Wanganui Bill had a rough scramble for it, a number of members who have resolved to oppose all Buch expenditure, doing their beet to have the Bid rejected, and, to use a slang term, it only got through "by the skin of its teeth.” It has to face the Council yet, and there are not sufficient “ friends at court ” to procure it a sufs passage. The Gisborne Bill, being of a totally different nature, may escape anything in the shape of antagonism. Sir Julius Vogel still remains obdurate in tbe stand he has taken io connection with the late rumpus in the House. Tbe Lyttelton Times backs him up as far as it has it in its power, but if Vogel proposed an ascent to the moon or a descent to Hades, it would just amount to the sama thing—the Timer would be at his back. Whatever sympathy might have been accorded to Sir Julius Vogel in tha first instance, there is not much to hr recorded in his favor now. If ha keeps the thing up it can only be as a losing gams.

The anticipated developments in connection with lhe Bell’s article on the Speaker did no: take place in tha House. It is stated tbai Mr Mitohelson, who has a share in the Belli has arranged to have an apology tendered to Sir Maurice O’Rorke, the Speaker, ana also to have Mr Beed, the editor of ths Bell discharged. On Tuesday Sir J. Vogel notified that he would move that the tariff question should be raised this session. Thera was a lengthy discussion on the announcement, and the question was ultimately adjourned. The Premier said that such a proposal would be taken as a No-Confidence motion,

LATER. A SOP TO SIR J. VOGEL. It is reported that Sir J. Vogel has been appointed the Colonial Managing director of the Midland railway and will shortly visit England. Major Atkinson has promised to try and amend the law so as to enable native land duty to be paid by yearly instalments instead of all at once. It is believed that all the work will be squeezed through, and that the House will be adjourned a day or two before Christmas. The question of revising the tariff was not raised io the House to-day, and probably will not come on till Friday.