PARLIAMENTARY.. GOSSIP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 2336, 28 August 1875, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.. GOSSIP.

Tkk debato'ils.igctting wcariaoriio aVcni to members, but whlloml! agree that it should bo cut Hbo/fc and fhq W|l rc^d'^ '«ecorvJ .'tlmo, thevo arc about twenty moro who aro rac/jtioncd as almost certain io speak. ' ' Ono good effect of speakers who havo gone befoveiu that'thoyfhavocuta^good) deal of ground from under tnoao who como In at tho heel of tho hunt, "and thla greatly curtails theii' harangues. When one hcara so manygpecchCHdoliVered by capable men without '• anything very Htriking being said af to the merits of the Bill, wonder Is arouacd that lt ( Bho'uld not ho dealt with afc onco, ' ' ♦ ' ' The provincitillatg maintain, 1 assert, And re* Iterate in every conceivable way, that provincialism is the very essence ' of ' the 'people's liberty; thatadminigtratively It is more cheap and efficient than tho General Government; and that the latter if feeling tfw pinching of poverty, and has entered, upon v, piratical oxpedltioit against the Provinces. The supporters of the bill road the foregoing all backwards, and so throughout tho debate nre these assertions and denials thrown from one side of the House to tho other. , Tho argumentative portion 'of tho debate Is conspicuous by Us absence. /t is anticipated that tho Opposition will not fully display their system of reslstanco until the bill goes into committee ' A meeting of tho principal members of tho Opposition was hold in tho Provincial buildings on the 25th, to consider what steps should bo taken upon the second reading of the Abolition Bill.' ' JTfc was decided thafc no division should he forced by tho Opposition, and If Government called for one, thoao who were in favour of tho second reading tiufc no further could record their vote accordingly, and those libKolutely opposed to the i'ill will go to the lobby.