POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5490, 21 June 1879, Page 5

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

[BY TELEGRAPH, FROM A CORRESPONDENT.! Wei.linotox, Friday. Tirs approaching session of Parliament is beginning to engage aV.ention, and a good deal of interest is beiog excited by the expected proposals of the Miuistry. That they are not altogether united among themselves is admitted, and the appointment of Mr. Luckie is still unsettled, and likely to occupy the attention of tho House. The threatened resignation of Mr. Stout is be-

lieved to have some connexion with these differences, although his friends strenuously deny it. His resignation just now would be a serious blow to tho Cabinet, and would probably necessitate a reconstruction of the Ministry.

The programme of business, as far as I have been able to learn, will he this : After the election of Speaker, Mr. Ballance will bring down a new Loun Kill, and ask the House to assent to it at once, on the ground of the pressing financial neces-itiea of the colony. He will ask that the alloca tion of any surplus, not required to finish tbe contracts for public works now in hand, shall be made at a later period in the session, when tbe Estimates are brought on. What the amount of the loan will be, has not been settled. At first it was sugtjest'd that power should be taken to raise £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 to comple'e the public works scheme, and put an em] to fnrUier loans for some time. The proposil wm, I believe, to float the loan in two instalments, one of £3,000,000 immediately, and the balance in eighteen months, or two years Now, rumonr says that the total amount of the loan will be £3,000,000. A new Representation Bill will be introduced as one of the first measures, and, from what has leaked out of its provisions, it is likely to occasion a strong fight. Most of the bills to he introduced arc in a forward state, and the Ministry ae determined to force on a dissolution if they cannot command a workisg majority. Rumour says th-t the Chairmanship of Committees will occasion some difficulty. Mr. Seymour, Mr. Bryce, Mr. Runny, and Mr. Hamlin are each named for the position, but no definite decision is likely to be arrived at until the meeting of the Assembly.