HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3792, 10 September 1883, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Saturday. Tho House met at 3 p.m. ASSENT to bills. Mr Hamlin took tho chair as ActingSpeaker, and after prayers were read presented several messages from the Governor assenting to bills, ice. He also announced that ho waited upon tho Governor and presented the Appropriation Acts, to which his Excellency had been pleased to assent. BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. The Acting-Speaker laid on the table a schedule of the business of the House of Representatives and of bills passed and lapsed in both Houses during the session. A WILD SCENE. Mr Hamlin then left the chair, when Sir George Grey rose and said he wished to give notice of the following motion for tho first day of next session. To move for leave to introduce a bill entitled "An Act to provide for the equitable settlement of claims to land under any Regulations to retired sailors of the Royal Navy, soldiers, or Volunteers, for services performed in NewZealand, or in the event of any such claimants having died, to provide for the ascertainment and adjustment of the rights which tho widows or children of such deceased claimants may have to any such lands."

Mr Hamlin said ho could not receive it, and a wild scene took place. While tho confusion of words was going on the Ser-geant-at-Arms announced a message from the Legislative Council. Tho Clerk of the Legislative Council was admitted, and requested the members of the House to attend the Commissioners for prorogation. Before Mr Hamlin could leave the chair Sir George Grey protested and said he held authorities to show ho was right. The Acting-Speaker and thirteen members then proceeded to the Council Chamber, preceded by the Ser-geant-at-Arms with the mace.