PARLIAMENTARY.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 166, 7 September 1877, Page 6

PARLIAMENTARY.

„',. ..TFJROM OUROWiST COItR£SPO:N T D.ENT.,] ' ;;;.:."": : \\ . Wellington,^ Aifepi 'tffai V The. great. privilege case of Mr (j'eprg'e ' .;Jpnes..b,as,at labt come. ; , to. .an lend, so . -There canrbs tno doubc- that .th'ej tto.use committed a great mistake;. in | calling 1 Mr J.on.es to; Athe^ .bar. : . :: A fter thby ' got,' ■himi^tere. .tbey.^lid not- know what to' do wkhi,-him.f.-.:pi'obtibly .'M-r.vWh'i taker/ thought; that .Mr. Jones would" make a, hiinible applogj, r b'u.t:-tii'is--"-'he»i i ef\.jsed ! to do.: '.'The Hdiise^having 1 brought . liim to the 1 bar oug-ht 'certainly to ! %ive ! ap-, 'pointed a Co'mmittee ; to take evidence; The whole matter, howeveV^is relegated' to "tiie .Supreme ■: Court. -^ This, Mr •'•Wh-i taker might I 'Have done ; without' ■bringing* -the "in after before the House ¥'tii- "' : : '"' •:■'■■';■ ' ' ; ■•;.:'://;, To show the interest that has' been taken v ih' the' case! of Mr George" Jones', ;if. may .be mentioned that, the strangers'.g'iille.ries.pT. the House, of Repr'esenia-' tives cr were perhaps ney.er inller than' they were on the afternoon of Tuesday , ■ .when Mr George Johes. appeared at the bar. Tbe ladies' gallery,. especially 'waa i full to overflowing. Any- amount of amusing*. " locals" have appeared in the j papers regarding .-.Mr. .Geo.rg-e Jones: They. are almost,. ail-without- exception., overdrawn.' lie has been tho^ hero of the hour. His case occupied the attention of the .House of .Representatives for an. entire, day.: ..Tiie cost of. this to the country musti'epresent a consider-, able sum of money. ■ . • „, f i'he whole of -Wednesdpy afternoon was occupied with the case of Mr Barton/ who presented a petition complaining 1 ag-ainst two of the judges of the Supreme Court. 'This •is -the first, time that anything 1 of tho kind has Happened in the (Jolohy. The Attorney- General, in his yrteech on opening* ' the subject, described the 'tionstitntiohal -practice 1 in such cases. His opinion was that there was 'no prima facie case for" further enquiry, and tha.t' therefore the petition, shou.'d be diainicsGcl. . An amendment was proposed t'p . the effect that the matter should be referred to a Select Committee to take evidence, but this was lost. . . . , . •'■ ■ . The whole of Wednesday evening was token up with the Local. Option Bill. Mr I ! 'ox, in replying 1 to the various speeches made in the second reading*, hit out very hard. He was of course hit hard in return. It is a pity that Mr Fox should be so- in temperate in his langung-e. It only does injury to the cause he has so much at heart.