PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1566, 23 September 1905, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

(Par Piesa Association.) Wellington yesterday. After the telegraph office olosed, the debate on the Becond reading of the Workers’ Dwellings Bill wa3 adjourned. The House rose at 2.5 a.m. AFTERNOON SITTING, SESSION OLOSES OCTOBER 20th. [(Eft Press 'Association.) Wellington, last night. The House met at 2.30. It was deoided to sit at 7.80 p.m.on Mondays for the remainder of the session. Mr Seddon said he hoped the session would close on October 20th. The remainder of the sitting was devoted to farther consideration of the Estimates, the Oolohial Secretary’s Department being the first takeD. At tho vote for Ministers’ secretaries, Mr Massey moved a rednotion of £lO as an indication that the' House should be famished with full particulars as to bow many secretaries each Minister employs. This was lost by 39 to 28.

EVENING SITTING. Tho House resumed at 7.80. The Estimates of ' the Colonial Secretary’s Department and the Public Health Department passed unaltered. During tho disoussion on tho vote for the Industries aud Commerce Department Sir J.-G. Ward said there was a prospeot of establishing a Vancouver servioe. It was not intended to continue the subsidy for the South African servioe after October, as the Goverment were not prepared to pay £30,000 per annum on the trade done last year. Mr Gow, Trade Commissioner for the colony in South Afriaa, had been ordered to report himself ; n New Zealand.