THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 701, 18 September 1876, Page 2

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

(Per Press Agency,, Wellington, Septembe 16. The following protest was placed in the hands of the Speaker on Saturday night, but he declined to put it before the House; “We the undersigned members of the House of Representatives do hereby protest against all adjournments except those provided for by the standing orders, and will use every constitutional means to prevent the same. E. W. Stafford, J. 0. Wason, A. J. Richmond, J. Sharp, E. Wakefield, J. Henry, T. Kelly, A. P. Seymour, W. Russell, V. Pyke, A. Cox, J. Bryce.” The object of this was to continue the sitting uninterruptedly through Sunday. Dunedin, September 18. A letter is to be sent from Dunedin on Tuesday, addressed to Mr Macandrew and the other Dunedin city members, expressing the opinion that an end should be put to wrangling and factious obstruction, and that they should address themselves to the business of the country. The letter is signed already by more than 600 citizens, many of them influential. (From our own Correspondent), Wellington, September 18. No arrangement between parties has been effected. Mr DeLatour resumed talking at ten, and is addressing a bare quorum on utterly irrevelant subjects. 2.10 p.m. At noon the Opposition members ceased to talk against time, and the members of both sides assembled. A motion for the adjournment of the House was negatived by 34 to 23. Ballance’s addition to the motion declaring Ministers’ seats not vacated was put and carried by 38 to 24. Mr Murray then proposed a further addition that it would lead to the creation of a dangerous and objectionable precedent to sanction any evasion of laws by persons high in authority, whose example should be that of obedience to the laws which they themselves have made. The Government refused to admit that, and stated they would insist on the Speaker continuously occupying the chair if the debate went on. An adjournment was then made for an hour.