PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 4

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

DEFENCE ESTIMATES.

GARRISON OFFICERS' CLUB BALLOT.

LANGUAGE IN CAMPS.

LAND MATTERS: ROADING GF BLOCKS.

■ Tho Legislative Council met at 2.30 > v-THE NEW BANK. The HoiiiJ O. SAMUEL moved that the amendment mado by tlw House of ; m ti]io Commercial Bank oEi-A-ratralia(Limited) Bill to 'omit Cl^M":4::bo,tiot'. agreed to, and that tho, amendment; to pmit Clause 5 .be • This the Hon. H. Di'Eell.rtlio'Hon.' W'. F. Camcross, and the ■ Horn. 0. Samiiel were eppomted^itaC^mniitt<!e;.. : ,tp draw up reasons • Clause 4;'-. which was stmck out by the House, imposes on tho bank shareholders 'unlimited -.liability in respeot of noto "House struck it out for the reason that,- as was stated, the olanso would bo enforceable only against tho New''Zcal&nd'shareholders of the ■bank. Clause ois not'iimporta-nt, being practically a complement of Clause 4. C L ERK OF PA RLI AM E NT. The Legislative. I Athcndment ' Bill, 1913, was passed' through all its stages. The Hon. H. D. BELL explained 1 that the Bill was merely a formal measure, rendered necessary by the illness of tho Clerk of Parliament, Mr. Stowe. The law did not provide for anyone hcting as his deputy, and tho Bill was to mako provision for this. Ho (Mr. Bell) was x glad to bo able to say that the need for the Bill was not; so pressing as it seemed likely to be whon it was drawn, for Mr.-: Stoivo was rapidly recovering.