Wellington Gossip.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10361, 22 July 1896, Page 2

Wellington Gossip.

(raoa oub owh cobbksjfondxht.j (BY TELKaEAPH.) vVelmnoiton, Tuesday, A CAUXIOUS REPLY. Mr Duthie ,«ied to draw the Premier to-day by asgJ D g whether be has read the late Treasurer's remarks, when In epeak. !S s^ he BaDk Nota 188a 8 B«l he stated tbsfc the Government had no Intimation that the provisions of that bill were institution of the colony, and whether too Premier is now aathGed that his late. £?Jta5 B rtf * P °n 9 i n c " or , wh en he recently stated that all the banks joined In snob an application? Mr Seddon fenced the. whole of the banks doing bnßlnees In New r B o 9 "f^ownrred la Australia la ml ? h^ , extend t0 * hla colony, and that they all endoraed what the Government had dona In bringing In the bill. 4t Dutble asked whether the Union «nk. ol Anstralla had reqnsated the alnlatar to Introduoe the bill? The Premier replied in the negative, end ho also stated that the Bank of Australasia iad not done so. Mr Dotble then wanted to know whether the Bank of New South Wales had asked them, to whtoh Mr Seddon gaye an evasive reply, Mir S? o^J resaßd !5 r a repI y> a P° n which W Seddon, amidst loud laughter, said St was ell very well for the banks i . dfl °y having done .bo now that the v crisis had passed away. He admitted. However, that theaa banks had not con* suited the Government In the matier, bni> mao they all thoroughly apnroved iha course taken by Ministers at Tat time. ' THE PBEMIEJR'S HEALTH, Everybody is remarking the haeaara careworn appearance of the Fwß aSS U ?° donbl) at all that udLbb Mr follos°h fi B l « e8 vu P BOme af, hlaOTmetoufl P«* ?nin n J ?t ■■ hftv I '°R a B «ioua Ulnass. The oolony has already nnJMtnnateiv lo»t two 1 HR "y *«*** ««-l6 Bate) S

Mr Seddon was suddenly prostrated by { Illness on Saturday morning, which ia .mid ! to have been mainly due to pressure of , work and late hoars In the House. \ LEGISLATIVE TRIP. I i As exourslon trip to Napier and Gls- { borne is projeoted for Saturday, The proposal Is that members who intend going shall leave here for Napier by tho express on Saturday morning. They would remain in Napier for a few hours, and leave for Gisborne by the Hlnemoa about 11 o'olook on Saturday night. The party would leave Giaborne for -Wellington early on Monday morning, arriving here on Tuesday. THE SPEAKER'S APOLOGY. Much comment iv oansed In (he lobbies owlog to the foot) that a portion of the Speaker's remarks rospeotlng the disagreement between the Minister for Lands and Sir Maurice O'Rorko is altogether omitted from Eansard, Strange to aay, they are the very words which members on all sides of the Houee regretted to hear the Speaker use, namely, that he hoped the matter "would be overlooked by the Minister for Lands." The Post to-night has a strongly worded artlole on the subjeob in the course of whloh it says:— •• Patting aside the general tenor of the remarks from the chair, Sir Manrice O'Rorke at the conclusion of his mollifying address stated distinctly and In plain terms that * he hoped the matter would ba overlooked by the Minister for Lands.' Mow considering the relative poaition of the parties, if this be sot an apology then there is no meaning in words. But did he ntter them? Most certainly. They were taken verbatim by four of the most reliable representatives of the Press Gallery, and can be deposed to by many members of Parliament of the Liberal party. They have been published In the leading papers of the colony, and have been accepted as having been uttered by the Speaker of the Honoa of Representatives, and so they were. But Bhamefal to relate they do not appear in the official record of the debates of Parliament. What then will follow ? Is It not easy to conceive how eagerly this garbled Eattsard will be seized npan by papers of the right color to prove the baseness of the leading journals of the colony in misrepresenting the speech of the Speaker that the Government might be discredited and attacked? Now we fully appreciate the good work that for many years has been performed by Sir MaurieeO'Borke asSpeaker of the Honse fif Representatives, bun we cannot consent to be branded in this fashion in order that be may escape some of the consequences of a humiliation he brought upon himself. The words were.nttered and Bbonld have appeared In Hansard, and we have the right to demand that our poaition be vindicated." JOTTINGS, Ministers are said to be in a regnlar dilemma over the bank business, and not at all sure of their ground in case of the bank officers still refusing to disclose information about private accounts. There was not much life in the financial ' debate to-night, and it really seems as if everything else were absorbed in the proceedings of the Bank Committee. : Mr JE. M. Smith caused roars of laughter to-night by the numerous references- he made to his recent trip to London. He said there were 250 millions of money lying In the banks in England, and he had managed to secure a few hundred thousands for this colony.