PARLIAMENTARY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2021, 16 August 1880, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION SPECIAL WIRE.] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. This Day. The House met this morning at 11 a.m. After prayers, The Hon. J. Hall said that hon. gentlemen no doubt were aware that, since they met on the ;]ast occasion, death had removed from their midst one of their number in the person of the member for Waikaia, Mr Ireland. Of the deceased, he felt himself in many respects incompetent to do his many virtues justice on that occasion. They all know the quiet, unassuming, conscientious manner in which he discharged his duty. The Government understood it was tho desire of his friends that his remains should be interred amongst them. Under the peculiar circumstances of the case, the Government thought it would be giving effect to the wishes of the House, as well as to the wishes of the country at large, by facilitating that desire to the best of their ability. They had, therefore, mode arrangements for the remains to be forwarded by Government steamer direct to Lyttelton, from whence they would be conveyed by rail to the part of the country to which the deceased belonged. The remains would leave the lodging occupied by the deceased at two o’clock, so that, after embarkation, the steamer might take its departure at 2 30. To enable hon. gentlemen to pay the last tribute to the memory of the deceased, he would move the adjournment of the House till 7.30 p m. Mr Macandbew seconded the motion for adjournment in a few remarks complimentary to the character and conduct of the deceased. Sir G. Grey said that members on his side of tho Houao felt very grateful to tho Government for the prompt arrangements made for giving effect to the wishes of the deceased’s friends. He quite agreed in what had fallen from the hon. Premier with regard to deceased. The circumstances of his death were such as to inspire them with feelings of the utmost respect for his memory. His career had been brought to ’a close while he was engaged in the public duty of his country, and in the Legislature of his country his name would be held in remembrance as a good man —a man who had done his duty conscientiously and well. I

Mr J. 0. Bbown also made a few remarks in praise of the deceased. Mr Fulton said he was an intimate friend of the deceased, and spoke of the high estimation in which he was hold amongst the constituents whom ha represented. They had elected him not for his peculiar talents or abilities, but because ho was an honest, upright man, a man who never did anything against his convictions. They had taken him from his claim as a working miner and had paid the expenses of his election. He was a man who was conscientious to a fault, and in that House ho had gained the respect of everyone with whom he was brought into contact. He was an honour to the constituency by whom he was elected; he was an honour to the House and an honour to all those who called him their friend. He felt he could not say less, and it was not for him to say more.

The motion was then put and carried without dissent, and the House adjourned.