MR. WILLIS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 26 November 1912, Page 5

MR. WILLIS.

CENSURE MOTION REJECTED SUPPORTED BY PREMIER. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, November 25. The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Willis, has asked Mr. Wood Acting-Leader of the Opposition, to out his motion down to a bare expression of want of confidence in. himself (Mr. Willis). (Rec. November 25, 9.55 p.m.) Sydney, November 25. In tho Legislative Assembly, the Speaker, in reply to Mr. Wood's request for an explanation, said the censure motion had been cut doivn becauso tho first part ,was irrelevant to the issue. Tho House agreed to take the motion as amended, the Speaker waking it a simple censure of himself. MB. WOOD'S SPEECH. (Rec. November 26, 0.50 a.m.) Sydney, November 26. Mr. Wood, in a two-hours' speech, attacked the Government for failing to ta&e tho logical course to clear up matters regarding the Speaker's powers. He claimed that the House' should have tho initiation and control of its own business. The Premier, in reply, defended Mr. Willis, :nd declared that he had no intention of taking the .business of the House out of the hands of the Government. Mr. Holman, Attorney-General, moved the closure, and Mr. Wood's motion was negatived, the voting being:— Against the motion 8i For the motion 32 Majority against 2 The vote was purely a party one. OBITUARY. —: DISCOVERER OF- THE TELEPHONE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. November 25, 10.45 p.m.) Paris, November 25. The death is announced at the age of S3 of Charles Boursel, who discovered tho principle of the telephone. He' died poor and unknown. On August 26, 1854, there appeared in ''L'lllustration," Paris, an interesting artiole by Charles Boursel on the electrio transmission of sound. The writer recommended the use of a flexible plate at the' source of sound, which would vibrate in response to the varying pressure of the air, and thus open, and close an electric circuit, and of a similar plate at the receiving station, which would, be acted on eleotro-magnetically, and thus give out as many pulsations as there were breaks in tho current. Philipp Eeis, of Fredericksdorf, in 1861 first used the word "telephony" in a Iccture, but although his experiments received wide attention little progress was made until between 1874 and 1876 by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who perfected the telephone as a practicable commercial instrument. CANADIAN BANKER. Ottawa, November 24. Six Edward Seaborne Clouston, Bt,, general manager of the Bank of Montreal, is dead, aged 63. The late Sir Clouston was bom in Canada, and entered the service of the Bank of Montreal in 1865; He became general manager in 1890. He was a governor of M'Gill University, and was president of the Canadian Bankers' Association. In 1908 he was created a baronet.