Parliamentary.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 October 1901, Page 3

Parliamentary.

[OUE PAELIAMENTAEY EE POET EE.]

Wellington This Day. Important amendments have been made in the Statutes Revision Committee in the Criminal Code Amendment Bill. The penalty for defamatory libel which is provided only for by imprisonment, has been made two years imprisonment and a fine not exceeding £SOO thus following the Queensland law. Subject to reports Parliament a~y and Court proceedings are priviliged, and information cannot be laid unless by consent of a Judge obtained in Chambers Sitting.

Though it has been confidently asserted that the session will end on Saturday next, the probabilities are chat the curtain will not be rung down till Thursday week, and that the Premier will leave for Christchurch the same day in order to be present at the people’s day at the Canterbury Show. To-night the House is to discuss the Public Work’s Statement, and to-morrow night it will bo employed considering the estimates.

Bills still on the order paper include such important measures as the State Goal Mines Bill, Licensing Bill, Payment of Members Bill, Railway Classification Bill, Maori Lands Administration Bdl, and others '.which are of a debatable character.

The Bill relating to Victoria College Site has yet to make its appearance.

In addition to all these there are the Supplementary estimates. This week promises to bo an exceptionally busy one within the walls of Parliament House.