Parliamentary.
(OUR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER.)
Wellington, This Day,
WARD GOES SOUTH. Sir J. G. Ward will attend the banquet at Invercargill to General Hector MacDonald on the 92nd inst. hr morrison’s health. The health of Mr Morri-on is again causing some anxiety to his friends. The member for Caversham leaves for the south to-morrow and after spending a few days at his home will go to Hanmer Springs in the hope of improving his condition. RAILWAY CLASSIFICATION, Railway hands will be pleased to hear that the amended Classification Scheme is to bo passed into law this session. The Super-annuation Bill will be circulated for consideration and suggestions by the Railway employees with a view to its being perfected and put on the statute book next year. hie licensing bill. The Amended Licensing Bill escaped “the Slaughter of the innocents” but although it will be brought down, the general feeling is that it wdl not become law. THE TATRA ELECTION. According to the Premier the Patea election will resolve itself into a straightout fight between Mr Ilaseldcn (the ousted candidate) and Mr John Heslop (Ministerial.) (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DISCUSSION ON THE ESTIMATES. Wellington, This Day. The House resumed at 9 30 a.m. when the Defence Department estimates was further considered. On the vote • for the South Africa Contingents £30,000, James Allen referred to the Tagus incident and complained that the fact of the men being taken to the Bluff and subjected to cold weather hud caused a fresh outbreak of sickness among the men on board. Seddon read letters signed by a large number of officers and men who came by the Tagus in which they stated that the reflections that had recently been cast on he Premier in this matter were unjustifiable and added that their visit to the South had nothing to do with the increased sickness and that no man who had visited Invercargill had suffered by doing so. A long discussion ensued.
Later. The discussion of the Tagus incident
lasted until the luncheon adjournment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 October 1901, Page 3
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336Parliamentary. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 October 1901, Page 3
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