PARLIAMENT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 10

PARLIAMENT

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, i The Legislative Council met al 2.30 p.m. The Hou., -T. MACGEEGOE asked the Leader of the Council, "WheHi"r the riover"iii"nt will invito til? .Tudses to {jive their opinio"s b'efore next session on the question whether the .furies A r t, ions, should be so amended as. !■> make the provisions of Section 152 apn'y , in criminal cases c o that (lie verdict "of t)tree-fon■•lbs shall be taken as a verdict of the whole?" Sir ERANCIS EELL replied th->t Ibe Government would coinmnnieate with the .Indues on the subject. As an expression of sorrow st the death of Mr. .T. TT. Escoft, M.P., the Council adjourned fill 2.30 nil TTondo.v. THE HOUSE. The House of Representatives innl at 2.311 p.m. Mr. K. A. WEIGHT (Wellington Subni'bs) save notice to ask the Minister of Knilway* whether, seeing that the Department is in urgent need of a central railwav station in Wellington, he would proceed willi the work. provided local business people advanced the necessary monev for the work. At 3.35 t'-ni. the House ridjnurned, out of respect for Ihe moimirv of the late Mr. J. If. Escntt, whose death occurred at noon yesterday. The Mouse will sit again this afternoon at 2.30.