PARLIAMENTARY.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 21 November 1887, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

From our Speoial Correspondent. BT TELEGRAPH. "Wellington, Nov 19. Tho Post to-night has a curious and mysterious paragraph which everyone is endeavoring to construe, hut, as a rue, people cannot ina.ic licad or ta*c ° > though in some quarters it believed to be the forerunn- r of something sensational in politics. It runs as follows: A discussion took place yesterday afternoon recrardm- the concealment by Government oi th' •• ii.iAu.Ld iK.li.-y which is likely to lad '• lt ' H-umuirs., wlii'-li -A- =!-:• .<•*: a- ; V r,. O.vnlye preen!, b'>•-.«. I . -£• >- teat tbev are 1-1 in,, d,.*<.*!.i*» 11 wt ia..mv. '-'at of the han.i < of is,., (b.vi rnmen! emi.rui of the policy < •; the Colony ami placing Ministers m tho posit 1-in of merely carrying out tho policy dictated 1.0 tin in by th" House and watch - ed over bv Parl'ament.” Ministers hope to iie able to bring down tho Public Works Statement by Tuesday W ln reference to the challenge thrown out by Sir Julius Vogel to Messrs Thompson, La wry and Goldie to resign their seats and fight out a duel with him after the close of the session to decide whether Si- Julius Ims the country behind linn, it is sta'e l that Mr Thompson, of M.irsden, whoso question cnii.-el tho recent (imbroglio, is prepared to pick up the gauntlet and the late lenLr of the Oppesit on at his word. It is not. known yet what the result will he, but it is generally anticipated that it. w'.M ond in smoko.