PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3524, 27 August 1880, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

, POLITICAL GOSSIP.

? [FfiOM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

GREY OUT OF' TEMPER.

* J^y»%SbX*4JWK!St.«a^l SfcJjfefc <?«&. Sot into a royal rage last night, -when the Property Assessment Bill was in Committee, and lashc I all rouivl. Me. Whi taker was attackc I becau93*ho^tnr.er-JG©o©i.Uaii objec-. ionable worJ,aa I was lenouncol as one vvuo.intrigued with Ministers to obHim 'the Patere're land at the expense of the public, ._aa4- by, the aid of an Attorney-General who"^ was rejected by the people. Tarauaki was "denounced us having wrung concessions from all Governments, because' Colonel Trimble expressed a doubt as to Sir Geo.. Grey's desife to be-taxed. Mr. Moorhouse called |"quesfci6n," and he- was referred to as one who also intrigued to obtain Murimotu at a nominal price, to the 'disadvantage of the rest of the public- Then Ministers were referred to as' having helped their friends to get rich, to thepublic disadvantage.

Mr. Moorhousei in his turn,- had a go-iti at Sir G. Grey,, and denounced him as being politically corrupt, and always humbugging the people by telling them" if they would only follow him that they would be free from taxation.

After a small tempest in a teapot for the amusement and instruction of the gallery, which was very full, calm was restored, and progress was reported. PROPERTY BILL TO BE DROPPED. It is anticipated that this Bill will now be dropped.

END ©F THE SESSION.

To-day the Government proposed to suspend the Standing Orders to allow business to be bronght in after 12.30 at night, so that if possible all the business will be disposed of by to-morrow, and that the House be prorogued on Saturday. FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS ACT. The Financial Arrangements Aci is now before fc he House. It provides for the abolition of the 20 per cent, payable to counties, and for a payment of 7s. 6d. in the £on all rates to roal boards, boroughs, and counties, for the nine months en ling 31st March next, the full subsidies having been paid to the 31st June last.

The supplementary estimates have not been aent down, but are expected to-night.

FREE TRADE IN LAW.

The Legislative Council having rejected the Law Practitioners' Bill, Sir Geo. Grey has introduced a new one, making the practice of the law open to all persons who can pass an examination in law and general knowledge. He does not intend to push the second reading this session, but has got leave to introduce it, so that it may be generally known and discussed during the recess, aud during the next session he will bring in and press on the bill.

Nino natives arrived this morning by the Hawea, from Auckland, for the purpose of visiting their friends and relatives at Punehu.

The schooner Nelson left Waitara on the 20th instant, and arrived at Hokiauga yes" terday. ' -

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day at 1.10 p.m. — " Bad weather probably in any direction between north-east and north, and west. Glass further fall, and considerable sea within twelve hours."

The s.s. Hawea left Onehunga wharf at 12.30 p.m. yesterday, crossed Manukau Bar two hours later, and anchored in the roadstead at one this morning. After landing cargo, she proceeded South at 11 a.m.

Eighteen natives have been taken into custody at the camp, and will be brought into town this evening. We hear that the natives are not now such docile prisoners as they have hitherto been, and the constabulary are frequently provoked almost beyond endurance by the insolent behaviour of the " noble savage," who yields up his liberty at the instance of Te Whiti, but who still considers he has a right to vilify his captors.

Nelson is a delightfully quiescent place. We learn from the Mail that notwithstanding rude Boreas was bringing destruction to roofs of houses, chimneys, and telegraph poles, not a hundred miles or so to the south of it, yet in " Sleepy Valley" not a " breath of air was stirring," and the Zigzag had to be climbed by a gentleman who wanted to winnow some beans, where he had to wait for half-an-hour before he was fortunate enough to get a puff of wind sufficiently long and strong for the purpose.

A new arrival in New Plymouth has embarked in the hazardous occupation of begging, and so far he has no reason to complain of want of success. He is a perfect type ' of the street beggar usually seen' in London and other large cities, and has an endless variety of plausible stories, all calculated more or less to touch a tender chord of compassion in the breast of the persons to whom his appeals are made. At one time he is in great distress on account of his wife having been coufined, and he wishes to raise sufficient money to telegraph the joyful news to his friends, who will surely send him assistance. Anon he is a gardener out of employment, and without food, and knows not where to look for succour. Such tales as these have invariably proved successful in extracting money, but they have been repeated too often, and it has transpired that this gushing gentleman is a rank imposter. The police have notified to him that if he continues his little game he will come to grief.