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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1588, 6 May 1887, Page 2

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I (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) [ Dunkdtn. Thursday, 7.30 p.m. At the Lrni'l R-anl v cstpidnv, it was resolved ! that Runs !], 1:>, in, 17. '2O, 21 and 22, Wakatipu, iiusi.l.l at ivrent tale, be advertised as open for r.p] lieatir.n. Mrs S. Ho-ilt applied for le-tve to surrei.d' r her perpetual lease sections 27 to 31 and 36, W-«ok VI., Mid-Wakatipu. The aureuder was accepted. LATER. This Day, 11.SO a.m. The Tail of Aberdeen has been formally received by the cifizuis of Auckland, and addie-ses were pre seated to him by supt otters of Home It ule, etc. At adjourned meeting of ihe Ltihl B">ard yesterday, tlit' manager «>f New Z» al>nd Loan and Merrart'le .■4g"iicv Lo. asked for peimission to surrender Tiiin 433. Hawia district, as the ravages made by kens ai>d ri'b'it®, and the losses by snow, had compi 1!» d Isi n> to remove sheep from the run. Referred to Oovcri.mmt fur consideration. PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. J. Mackenz ; e's moti, n, in crmmittre, on the Tit j resei tatii l) Bill, to reduce the number of members ti> 7!, was can it d by -19 to 33. Under ihe new li ll Mount Ida ai.d the Lakes wiil letum two members. (FROM OVR SPECIAL REPORTER.) Weli incti n, Thursday evening. The Pppresentiition I!i 1, as introduced by the Vrt micr, was so mutilit-d in committee as to have become almost unreco disable. The country membus. It! by Mr G. F. }!i<har ! son, tot the quota fu;.g-.a:ed in (lie Bill strm k < ut by 33 to 23. and a similar commission as esisis under the ISSI Act ii.st it'-il. Sic Bob?, Stent to-dav informed the House that he was not prepar d to proceed with the measure in i'S pr«sent shape. A., hove»*r, be was desirous that a Representative Bill should le passed th'S session. he invited a compromise with the leading Oppositionists. 'I here's a sirr.ng feeling <n the part of the Opposition vith refennce to thp tayment of £IC32 to M'S Fr.str. wfe of C'o'oi ei Fiaser, for her interest in lnnd at Auckland. 'lhe thing is looked on as a joh, and i' is likely to be probtd t" the bottom. A sun r : se was eiVecte 'in the House h'st evening, vhei', i y .">7 to 32. a motion proposed by Mr John Mackenzie, Muraki. was ca;ried, reducing the lumber t.f members to 7'. The proposal was sfroi g!v supported bv Mr Fergus, who lobbied veiy 1 eat try in favor of a reduction. The Ministry were divided on thn eucstion. Si me numbers voted for tliH proposal rev« r dimming it w< uld be cariitd, but thiukim.' it was a popular election cry; antl theie is now a talk i f Letting the Bill re-committed, with a view of getting the pr> s- nt numUr restoied. The whole conduct t f ihe Tl.tll case was ventilated yesteniay, when Mr Tun bull, in moving for a tefurn showing the cosis of nations prosecutions, took advantage «>f tlie occasion to make a teneral a'tu-k on the administrati n of justice. He said tln.t a miscarriage of ji.sti«-e, consequent on the derision tf the Appeal C urt, had lul to the popular belief that in this coony :he>e was one law for the ticli aed another f>r the ] o< r, ami he asset ted that had Cat';ey and lYnn (the (Ireat Barrier Island inui< e't is) had the same influence ;id the wealth at tlitir backs, they would now le llall's comrades in the Auckland g ,cl.

LATER. T!ie feeling is growing that, sorn as the Financial Staffmtnt is iblivtred, (<o\en.mei:t will be attacked by a \»iy hfsiiV. \ote. At pn suit they command a inajoii:\ <f cue in a (jUeMii n of noeontiduice, I.ut iluii advantage is so small that an unfavorable bu>ij,tt <•{ proposal* would j-Jace them in a minority. I relit ve tlie Prunitr will propose a lesolu'ion (?) of thf t; r.ff without interfering with union nects-ai its t f Me. Minister* tvil! i iiiliai'lv Mig.es' a reduction in the hni.oiiru.m in ilieir Fniriinii.l Starernent. They will als". i le.-.ri', sh w a surplus to the extent of a! out £ 120,000, savings tticottd in the Railway Department.