END OF THE SESSION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 973, 14 November 1910, Page 4

END OF THE SESSION.

SIGNS THAT IT IS NEAR. The present session has had a lusty old age, but its termination now seems to be within measurable distance. It was thought business might be concluded by next l'riday or Saturday, but the volume of the evidence being taken by the committee set up" to investigate Mr. Hino's charges renders that improbable. The House will have to wait for the report of this committee, and as a considerable amount of evidence has still to be taken, and there will probably be some little delay while it is being printed, and the committee has then to deliberate, it is not considered likely it can present its report this week. To expedite matters as much as possible, the committee will sit all day to take evidence, and the House will • not meet again till Tuesday afternoon. The Legislative Council, which has now plenty of business to go on with will meet to-day, and will probably consider the Gaming Bill. According to a statement made by the Hon. D. MTCenzie. the Public Works Statement will not be brought down till Friday. It is rumoured that in view of .the fact that the House will have to sit over this week the Land Bill will bo brought clown. No one, however, seriously believes that the Bill will be accepted in its present form. But the Ministry has made it clear, that it is willing to oblige the House by turning any kind of somersault that is possible in order.that concessions may be made to ■ both leaseholders and freeholders. The House sat on Saturday, and got a number of local Bills which are unopposed out of the way. In several respects the present session has proved an extraordinary one, and that adjective can fairly be applied to the rush of Bills between 2 a.m. and noon on Saturday. Although the session has lasted 20 weeks, six Bills were introduced by Governor's Message shortly after two o'clock on Saturday morning, and four more were circulated on Saturday forenoon. At least two of these' are important measures. Saturday week is. being "tipped" generally as the closing day of the session.