PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3155, 23 June 1892, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

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WELLINGTON, June 23. Mr Dignan will second the Address-in-.Reply in the Legislative Council. Mr Barnicoat will be asked to move it. In the event of declining Sir P. Buokley will probably move it. _ It ia absolutely certain that no alteration in the tariff will be proposed this session. Ministers will this afternoon give notice of their three policy bills, in respect to which trouble with the Council is feared, viz, the Land Bill, Electoral Bill, and the Land for Settlement Bill. In the Electoral Bill provision will be made for extending thefranchise to females. At to-day's sitting the Native Land Purohase Bill is also being introduced by Mr. Cadman. Its objeot is to enable the Government to purchase native lands without tli6 removal of restrictions so far aB the Crown is concerned. Ministers are actively preparing for a dissolution, and the rolls are being put in order. The course of events, so far as the Government is concerned, will probably be this : They will send their Policy Bills to the Council, where the rejection of the Land Bill at least is deemed certain. The Premier will then have to carry on in the face of the Upper House or tender the resignation of Ministers. The latter course will, I venture to predict, be followed, and Mr. Eolleston will be sent for. Government supporters say that the Opposition cannot carry on for a single week, and that a dissolution will be the nest step. This is the course of events suggested by the ultraMinisterialists as an outcome of firm attitude by the Government yesterday.