PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.
(Prom our Exchanges.) Considerable opposition is being shown to the proposals for a reduction of the inland postage to a penny, and it is doubtful whether it will be aoreed to. Messrs W. Hutchison and Fisher are both determined opponents of the intended reform. Quite an unexpected turn was given to the financial debate to night by an amendment moved by Mr Fish. It was not, as is usually the case with amendments, made on going into Supply nor of a hostile characters On the contrary it was warmly com. mendatory of the Governmentpolicy. After the amendment had been seconded Mr Richardson, exMinister of Lands, took up the running and made a long speech. He began by charging the Government with breaches of good taste, and cited an instance in point. The conduct of the Government in publishing through the Press the names of persons -retrenched before the Civil servants received their notice of dismissal was next commented on, then Mr Richardson touched lightly on Mr Spence s retirement and Mr Duncan Campbell s appointmant, and then went on at length with the retrenchment proposals of the Government. The task of replying to him has been entrusted to the Hon. J. McKenzie, and there is every indication of a late sitting.
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Western Star, Issue 1576, 4 July 1891, Page 3
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