SCENE IN PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2125, 6 July 1907, Page 1

SCENE IN PARLIAMENT.

A “STRANGER” IN TROUBLE. WHAT ABOUT KUR AW AKA. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, last night. The forcible removal of a inan from the stranger’s gallery was the most interesting incident in the aftern u • proceedings in the House. Mr. Hogg was contributing ' his quota to the long array of speeches on the Address-in-Reply when a voico from the gallery broke in -with the interjection “what price Kurawaka?” The sound of the name of a racehorso owned by two members of the House caused the legislators to look up in surprise, but no notice was taken of the interjection. A moment later some remarks made by Mr. Hogg in regard to Native land transactions apparently gave umbrage to a man in the gallery who in a loud and excited voice shouted, “You are quite wrong, Hogg—you have no right to deal with me wrongly. I am listening. Don’t you interfere with me.” “Turn him out,” exclaimed the Speaker, and the o”d rly in attendance proceeded to obey the Order. Mr. Hogg meanwhile continued liis speech. The orderly tapped the man on the shoulder and asked him to leave but he refused to go. The assistance of two other orderlies was then enlisted and the trio after a considerable struggle with the offender succeeded in carrying him across the tiers of seats of the gallery and down the stairs, at the foot of which their burden was ignominously deposited. The person quietly wended his way out of the ground evidently satisfied that he had got the worst of the encounter with the rules of Parliamentary usage.