POLITICAL NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2275, 3 August 1894, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

[R.A.L.]

Christchurch incident, Railway Commissioners, railway servants, Ministers compacts —we have them all over again at the very outset. But it is not “more sulphur ” this time. Quite the reverse in fact. Sir Robert Stout tolls the House that since last night he has seen Mr Reeves, who has assured him that ho never had anything to do with any list of officers to be dispensed with. Sir Robert accepts that assurance unreservedly. Mr Reeves explains what ho said at the mooting of railway men. It is not quite what he was reported in this column as having said. But the real point remains unaltered, viz., that what he said on that occasion he had said before on every public platform he had ever spoken from in New Zealand. The Premier has something to say also. Ho was not present at the meeting aforesaid, and ho did not at any time arrange any bargain with any of tho railway men. Sir Robert Stout accepts his assurance, and the incident comes to an end for tho present.

Then the debate is resumed, and keeps possession till dinner. After dinner it goes on, and keeps possession till supper. After supper it holds till past twelve, when the House adjourns on the motion of Captain Russell.