WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5445, 28 July 1879, Page 3

WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

L±5Y TELEGRAPH. J (FKO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Saturday. "Dp to nearly midnight yesterday there Seemed every prospect of a twenty-four hours' debate; and of innumerable amendflients rind talfc against time. The leaders of the : Opposition appeared willing to agree to the Government proposal to divide on Tuesday afternoon, but some of the younger - members J of the party ineisted- on pressing a division at all hazards. The lact and management of Mr J. Evans Brown, in whose hands Ministers had placed the matter, at last brought about an agreement, and the House rose before midnight. The probable ■ Opposition majority is seven, but Ministerialists seem to think 'they' will in some manner be able to reduce, it 'to three or four when the actual division comes. ' The feeling in favor of a party reorganisation under- Macandrew's leadership appears -to : be growing ; there is no probability of a Ministry under Sir William Fox lasting a month. Sunday. It is rumored in the lobbies that the committee appointed to investigate the 'alleged tampering with the Thames railway map have made Borne startling discoveries by examining witnesses on oath. It id said to' be proved that the map was altered after being laid on the table of the House, and 'tliat tlioalfceratioD was made ,i)y 'order of. 'the Minister of Public Works, "in compliance with the repeated solicitations of the Premier.. The memoranda which passed "Beiweon them were produced bf fore the committee. The report wijl.be Wpught'up on Tuesday.