WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9762, 12 June 1893, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

(Fbom Oue Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, June 11. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. The Hon. Mr Reeves was announced to leave for Christchnrch this evening and to address hia constituents on Wednesday nest, but ha has been obliged to deter his visit, having received a subpoena to give evidence in the Cadman-Rees trial. He will, however, find the opportunity of addressing his constituents before Parliament meets. OA.DMAN V. BEES. Besides the Minister for Education, who la subpoenaed as a witness for ;the plaintiff, Sit Patrick Buckley and Mr Hdgar Sheridan, of the Native Department,jhavo been subpoenaed ■tby the defendant. Their evidence will be taken by commission on next. INSTITUTE OF SURVEYORS. A meeting of the council was held last night. The draft bill to be introduced during the coming session was read. The Minister for Lands will probably introduce the bill, which is based on the suggestions of the Melbourne conference. Complaint was made that, there was no protection for surveyors in the present system of registering survey lines on native lands. Nominations of ten new members were received, six from Invercargill and four from Auckland. THE INFLUX OP POPULATION.

The Hon. Mr Seddon has despatched a cable message to toe Premie's of the various Australian colonies advising them that it is unwise on the part of men out of employment in those colonies to come to New Zealand in quest of work, seeing that there is a difficulty ia finding work for those who are out of employment in this colony. He reminded the other colonial Premiers that men without means coming to New Z -al Hid. in the winter season must endure great hardship from cold, exposure, and privation. He expresses an opinion that men in Ruch circumstances were far better off in the country where they were known and the winter was not so inolement He requested tho Government authorises in each of tha colonies to give these facts due publicity. MB M'LEAN, M.H B, The Government member for Wellington returned yesterday from a tour through tha Australian coloniea. He delivered many addresses by the way, having at heart the nationalisation of the coal mines. He acquired all the information he could at Newcastle relative to the coal mining industry, and had interviews with politicians',

farmers, and indeed all sorts and conditions ot men. They are not favourable to intercolonial exchange of products upon a schedule basis, because there is a fear of Heir Zealand j competition. Ha denies having told tbe people that there were not 50 unemployed in any city in New Z island. He was referring to open-air meetings regularly hell in Melbourne, when ha said he did not remember to have Been a meeting of the kind in this colony at which 50 genuine unemployed weve present. With one exception, New Zealand was spoken of everywhere in term 3of praise, and the death of Mr Ballanoe was greatly dsplored. Mr M'Lean's special mission to Melbourne was to attend the Grand Lodge of Druids and take the necessary Btep3 to establish a dißtrict grand lodge for the North Island of New Zealand and Westland. The requisite papers, however, had not arrived, and the necessary forms could, not therefore be complied with.

THE WANGAKUI ELECTION,

There is much ink being shed over the result of this election. The Times, of course, Bings the Bon; of triumph as follows:— "The victory of the Ministerial candidate at Wanganui speaks for itself. Mr Willis's large majority is sufficient reply to the Opposition prognostications. It blasts all the hopes founded on the small majority by which the late Premier won the seat at the last general election. They were hopes mainly entertained by men who cannot realise that the world never stands still. It is the Conservative method of regarding the march of events, and it is invariably wrong, becanse the wish is father to the thought. When Mr Ballance won the seat he was the Opposition leader. Since then he became Premier of the colony, and, as Premier, he developed a policy which amply justified bis claim and the claim of his party to public confidence. The effect upon his constituency was verydeoided.butthe Conservatives failed to see it. They therefore nnrsed the hope that at the next election they might wrest the seat from him. The fact, however, was that had he lived to contest the seat Mr Ballance would have been returned by an overwhelming majority. When he died his policy lived od, and the return of Mr Willis proves that the appreciation of that policy is living also. That is the main feature of the election. Mr Willis was able to prove, in the course of the contest, that he was familiar with the iclf is which Mr Ballance had brought to the front. He showed knowledge of the features Into which those ideas had been crystallised." The Post expresses its disappointment in the | following terms:—"lt is somewhat sad to see a constituency whiph has sent.a Featherston, a Vogel, a Bryce, and a Ballance to represent it in Parliament now content with a Willis. It is certainly not on his own merits that Mr Willis has been returned, and the party is entided to regard the election as a political triumph. When closely examined, however, its real value is not very great. The election was not a fair trial of strength between the. Government and the Opposition. The latter looked coldly on Mr Carson. They did not want him. It was quite impossible in his absence to get.'up any enthusiasm on his behalf. It would not have been easy to do so even if he had been present. Ho was forced on the Opposition by the Prohibitionists, and we hope that they are proud of their work. They come out of the contest worse than the Opposition. It was their obstinacy and narrowmindedness which forced the Opposition to rely on Mr Carson, and which has lost the Opposition the seat. - To have won it would have been a great triumph, and have had. a considerable moral effect on the coining general election. That the Opposition could have earned the seat had Mr Freeman Jackson been their candidate there is little doubt, and had it not been for the insistence of Mr Carson's injudicious Prohibitionist friends there is as little, we believe, that Mr Jackson would have consented to Btand for one session only." The Press refers to the subject in the following fss'bion : " It is evident that the Wanganui electors are at present in an easy-going mood or they would hardly be contented to be represented in Parliament by an inflated 'political pillowslip like Mr Willis. Him, however, they have chosen in preference to Mr Careon. At the same time, their doing so has little, if any, political significance; indeed it indicates that they are at present indifferent to the main issue of politics. Prohibition and anti-prohibition have doubtless had something to do with the re3olt,. for, as we suggested the other day, the anti-prohibi-tionist?, who as citizens approve* of Mr Carson's policy of political common sense, have held aloof because of the extreme present practices of the prohibitionists, with whose primary principles Mr Carson sympathises. In the main, however, the result has come about through the inflaenca and indifference of insignificant side issues, and the play of passing sentiments." — ~;