PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1559, 15 September 1905, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

JPen Press Asaociaticn.) Wellington, yesterday, After the telephone offioe closed, the Premier having replied, the Shops and Offices Bill passed final stages on the voices. . The House rose at 12.40.

AFTERNOON SITTING.Wellington, last night. The House met at 2.30. '>• The Education Committee brought up its report on the Teaohera’ Superannuation Bill, and recommended that provision should bo made for an annual payment by the Stale of £17,000, in order to make the scheme actually sound; and that a quinquennial investigation should take place, and the fund be readjusted. The debate on the land .question was then resumed.

EVENING, SITTING,.

THE LANDS DEBATE.

’(Per Press Association.) ’ Wellington, last night. The House resumed at 7.30.

The lands debate continued throughout the evening. Speaking to Mr Mnssey’e amendment, Mr Seddon said that he would accept the deoision of Parliament on this question. There was no tenantry in the world which was so happy, oontented,. and prosperous as the tenantry of New Zealand, a|id he dtd not believe they would kick away ’the ladder upon which they had olimbed to opulenoe and to prosperity. He did not believe Crown tenants wonld take advantage of the corruption offered by the leader of the Opposition, and he asked the House to support him in hia desire to enable poor men in the fatnre to riBB to the same prosperous condition as was anjoyed by Crown tenants to-day.