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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7896, 15 March 1887, Page 4

As will be seen from our Wellington messages, Parliament is to be summoned for business in the last week of April. The fixing of the exact day is to be determined by the Governor's convenience. Thie resolution on the part of the Ministry seems to indicate that it is not their intention to ask for a prolongation of the existence of this Parliament beyond the date at which it will expire by effluxion of time. It may therefore be concluded that the session will extend over the ordinary number of weeks, and that the Ministry will endeavour to have all their policy measures ready for early submission to the House. Among the first to be dealt with will be the Representation Bill, as, after it Has' passed, the commission it is intended to provide; for determining the boundaries of the several constituencies will require some time to consider and finish the business' relegated to its inenibere. Judging from the Premier's speeches, some of the measures which the Cabinet mean to propose will lead to considerable discission, and the rejection of one or more of these is not at all improbable. On this perhaps the Government are reckoning, but ', possibly they will not greatly concern themselves about the Opposition to them which may be elicited, and may be content to have placed before the country aa part of the policy on which they will solicit the suffrages of the electors. Between one thing and another the proceedings of the session promise to be more lively than is usually the caee with the final efforts of a moribund Parliament ; and the likelihood is that in several respects a new departure in the fiscal legislation of the country will be foreshadowed.