NO-CONFIDENCE.

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NO-CONFIDENCE.

CONTINUATION OF THE DEBATE.

MR, MILLAR OFFERS TO RESIGN.

WARDISM CRITICISED BY ME. HERDMAN.

[MR. G. W.. RUSSELL REPLIES.

' Owing to Hie Houso of Representatives adjourning after formal ■ business yesterday afternoon, the" debate on Mr. Massey s .no-confidence motion was not resumed until last evening. Tho galleries and the suats on tho lloor worn again filled wlie.n the House reassembled at 7.30 p.m., but ■Kieps had been successfully taken to prevent a repetition nf the unseemly overcrowding of the. previous day. Better or!der was also preserved among tho ' strangers."' The keenness of the Houso was .evidenced by full benches and very frequont interruptions. The Speaker often found it. necessary to interpose. The excitement was much less than on the pro- j .TJoi/s evening. Mr. Payne having waived hin right to Tesumb the debate,. the first hour at tho evening sitting was occupied by tho Hon. J. A: Millar. His speech was 'chiefly to quotations, from Hansard. He asseverated that the present Eo'form party was tlie .old, Conservative party, and this .was strongly denied .-from the other side of the.'House. He ended "by announcing tlint if his retirement, would be good for tho party he was quite prepared, like his leader, to resign. Mr. Herdman, who replied to tho Minis-. tiT. 'framed anew the indictment against Iho Government j n connection with tho expenditure of public works money for party purposes, and showed by means of striking instances tho need for Civil Service Eefor'm'.''" These were the things the people had'in mind when they condemned tho Crpvcrnmcnt ntthe elections; they did not worry about the records ■ that had just fcetn quoted by.Jfr. Millar, The piling up of tho public debt and the inefficient'management of the ■ railways were nlso tho subjects of pointed flttack by Jfr. Herdmnn, and ho drove home the charge that the Government had been false to its trust, and luul received the condemnation of the people. An /miniated speech by Mar. G. W. Russell was the last of the evening. He ex-pressed-a hopa that- Sir Joseph Ward would reconsider hp 3. decision': to .retire from the leadership; The adjournment wris moved by.. Mr. Euxton, and the House rose at ll<2o p.m.