PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1590, 31 October 1905, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

MORNING SITTING.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, yesterday. The Legislative Council met at 11 a.m. and passed a motion of regret at tbe death, of Mr Saunders: then adjourned till 2 o’clook as a mark of respect to his memory. The House met at 11 a.m.

Sir Joseph Ward, in answer to Mr Vile, said the commaroiai cablegrams sent by the High Commissioner would be very much extended. Arrangements had just been oonoluded in that respect, and the fluctuations in the selling exchange of all articles exported by tbe colony would be carefully watched by experts, and cabled to tbe colony. ••s Mr Seddon moved the following resolution : “ That this House desires no plaoe on record its high sense of the distinguished servioes rendered' to New Zealand by the late Alfred Saunders, its appreciation of his valuable services as a member of the House of Representatives, and its recognition of his work bs a publio man in Nelson and Canterbury, and as a contributor to the literature of the colony,, and tenders to the members of his family its heartiest sympathy in their irreparable loss.” Mr Sadden spoke at soma length in terms of high praise of the unselfish, distinguished servioes of the late Mr Saunders.

Mr Lewis apologised for the unavoidable absence of the leader of the Opposition, and seconded the motion in his stead.

Appreciative references to the deceased were made by Messrs Buddo, Steward, Ward, Witty and H iding, the last-named expressing, on bauaif of tbe temperance workers of the colony, their high appreciation of Mr Saunders’ services in the cause of temperance. The motion was agreed to, and at mid-day the House adjourned till 2.80 as a mark of respect to Mr Saunders’ memory.. Sir Joseph Ward announced that he intended to proceed with the Civil Servioe Classification Bill in the afternoon, and he hoped with the 00-operation of the Hor.oe to get it on the Statute Book.

AFTERNOON SITTING,

The House resumed at 2.80.

The Civil Service Classification Bill to formulate a sohemo of olassifioation for the Civil Service was pat through all its stages. The Anti-Harvester Trust Bill was considered in committee. Clause 7, the proposal that a duty may be imposed if the New Zealand manufacturers reduce prices, was struck out, and it was providod that if necessary relief be granted in a manner to be in hereinafter provided.

The House rose at 5.45. EVENING SITTING.

The House resumed at 7.30.

The Agricultural Implement Manufac-, tare Bill was amended in oommiltee to provide that where the Board reoommended that relief be granted to manufacturers of implements it shall be given by way of a bonus not exeseding 33 per cent. The Bill was put through all stages. The Maori Laud Claims Adjustment Bill, and Factories Act Amendment Bill passed the final stages. The supplementary estimates were then considered. -Mr Seddon said the Land Tenure Commission Jwould cost £IO,OOO, of which £BOOO was proposed to be voted oh the supplementary estimates.