PARLIAMENTARY INCIDENTS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1000, 8 September 1877, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY INCIDENTS.

[from the correspondent op the press.] Wellington, September 7. The debate last nigbt and to-day has been the warmest that has taken place this session. Mr Ormond made a very bitter speech, which had been brewing for some time. He adopted for the nonce the weapons of the Opposition —abuse and charges of every kind, under whichjthe Opposition members, unused to such treatment, fairly w r rithed. Mr Rees and Mr Stout seemed hardly able to retain their scats. Sir George Grey looked exhausted and astonished, while Mr Sheehan sat impatiently wiping the perspiration from his face. It was undoubtedly a hard speech, and went home, but it has raised a storm. Mr Sheehan replied, retorting charges of swindling Native land transactions and the whole Hawke’s Bay story book of land purchase on Mr Ormond. Tho debate then went off in a side wind as to the production of Locke and Russell’s letters, the motion for which was carried at two o’clock. The Opposition are not in a position to carry Mr Rees’s motion, but the debate will last all this evening, if the House can stand the fearful smells of chloride of lime, &c, which caused an early adjournment this afternoon, and which may cause a further adjournment this evening, as the odour in the gallery is almost unbearable. Sir George Grey has just begun his reply to Mr Ormond, which, it is understood, is to be a grand effort. 8 p.m. Mr Seymour has just stated that a committee should be appointed to inquire into the allegations made against Mr Ormond in connection with land transactions in Hawke’s Bay, and also the allegations made against Sir George Grey referring to land transactions at Lake Taupo, and also certain alleged improprieties on legal transactions in dealing with Native titles. This last alludes to charges against Mr Sheehan. The middle party claim that they are steadily strengthening their forces.