GOVERNMENT VICTORY. Yesterday's Vote Reversed.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 232, 10 December 1887, Page 13

GOVERNMENT VICTORY. Yesterday's Vote Reversed.

The following is the dmsiou taken this morning on the motion for striking out the "words Blh, October, 1889,"' inserted in the Representation Bill on Mi ])ownieBtew.'irt's motion and which occasioned the Ministerial cii^ife : — Avi.s : 29. Atkhifon Anderson Allen McGiegor Barron (teller) Mills, J. Eruce Mitchelson Buchanan Macaithur I>olson JMckenzie (teller) Fisher • Monk Fergus Pearson Fulton Rhodes G oldie Seymour Graham Tanner Hislop Thompson T. (AuckHislop land Nor oh) Jackson Taiwhanga Lawry Thomp:on (Marsden) Wilson Nors 16. Blake Felthvick Fraser Gremmond Guinness Jones J oy ce Lauce Larnach Loughrey O'Callaghan Seddon (teller) Stewart W. D. (teller) Taylor Walker Ward Paths. For. Against. Ormond Smith Why to TurnbuH Richardson, G. F Samuel. Withy Grey Koss Keir I/ard Fitchett T. McKcn-'ie W. P. Reeves Moss . Kelly Russell Duncan Hall Ballance ( 'arroll Vogel Moat Percival O'Conor Stewaul Cadman Fitzherbert Taipua McKenzie Beetham J. Fiih Peacock Richaids Pyke O'Levestam Cowan Buxton « ElTect of Keduction cf Memberst With seventy-four members the quota will be raised fiom 7,089 to 9,215 pet-sons." Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Clnibtchurch, suburban electorates will each lose a member in consequence of the reduction of members. The "Post" on tlie Crisis. The " Post" waxes very wrath over the crisis. It says, " The House has submitted to be browbeaten and bullied intft etultifyiug itself by reversing a very propeir decision, it had come to the picvious night as to the date in which the Representation Act is to come into force. We decline to believe that the Premiereversoriously intended to fulfil liis threat about resigning if the Houfre had remained firm and refused to ensure his tenure of omce for the next three years, and with this act on the Statute Book Major Atkinson will be completely master of the situation. Bounce has succeeded admirably, and the Vogel bogey has been used with triumphant success to frighten membersoutof their wit§ and. induce them to play into the hands of the Premier. Powers absolutely fatal to their own individual independance and that .of the body they form portions of.