POLITICAL GOSSIP.
[By Teleokaph, from our own CORRESPONDENT.] AN AMUSING ON DIT. Wellington, September 27. On (I'd in the lobbies that when Mr. Larnaeh's motion with reference to the ]Yahi Maori was tabled yesterday, Ministers laid their heads together in a very solemn manner. Some wished not to accept it as a " no confidence" motion. Mr. Reid said that if they would not do it, he would leave the Government Benches. He then got up and walked out of the House. Mr. Bowen also urged that the motion should be accepted as one of want of confidence. He was about to get up and make a Ministerial statement, when Mr. Whitaker pulled hi in down by the coat tails, and said if anybody had to do that sort of thing he flattered himself that, as having precedence, he was "the man Toe Galway.*' Judging by Ministerial countenances today, they arc about to be relegated to the cold shades of the Opposition Benches. Politicians are discussing atlairs on the gravel walk in front of the Government Buildings and iu little groups about the lobbies. There are mysterious buttonholeiugs everywhere. Every man is a lobbyist and a whip. The Opposition organisation is secret and unassailable.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 442, 27 September 1877, Page 2
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