WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7920, 12 April 1887, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[BY. TELBGBAPU.—-OWtf CORRESPONDENT.] ; Wellington, Monday. ■ MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, ! Sir Robert Stout arrived in Wellington on ■ Saturday night but started for Dunedin J yesterday morning in one of the Union Com- i pany's boats. .■..-■■ ' i THE REPRESENTATION BILL. J The Post, this evening, denounces in vehe- i ment terms the breach of faith contemplated by the Government in regard to this bill. The writer quotes the following passage from , the Premier's speech at Marton :—" Population, the Premier said, had increased 18 per * cent, all over the colony since the last redistribution, but if population was not accepted , as the basis, Auckland with its 53 per cent. , and Wellington with its 30 per cent, inoreaae , would not get the Increased representation to which they would otherwise be entitled," , and then concludes with the hope that the , North Island members will resent the contemplated breach of faith, in the most , decided and unanimous manner. They have " the Premier's own authority as to the effect of the new principle which Ministers now, i * in deference no doubt to Southern pressure, - have decided to introduce into the proposals ' for the redistribution of representation. '