PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2312, 1 September 1881, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

|Bx Tmegbaph.] [fboh the own oobbbspondbnt op the H pBBSS " I WELLINGTON, August 31. Mr Ormond has given notice of the following motion:—" That there be laid before this House (1) a oopy of the undertaking said to have been given by the Loan Agents that the colony would not go into the Home market for fresh loans until 1883, and all correspondence relating thereto. 2. A oopy of the communication from the Loan Agents referred to in Sir Julius Vogel's returned letter, suggesting means for obtaining money to meet the then pressing colonial requirements, and all correspondence relating thereto. (3) A copy of thotelegram from Sir Julius Vogel also referred to in his returned letter, in which he suggested other means of obtaining money for oolonial purposes, and all correspondence on the subject." Sir George Grey's Law Advocates Bill provides that " every male person of the full age of twenty-one years of age, of whose good fame and reputation and of whose learning in law any one or more Judges of tbe Supreme Court shall be satisfied, shall be entitled to be and shall be admitted and enrolled without fee, and to practise as a barrister or advocate of the said Court, and as such barrister or advooate shall be admitted generally to the practice of the law, and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges thereof under any law in force as aforesaid; provided every Buch person shall, previously to suoh admission, be examined in law, and the Judges of the said Court shall from time to time prescribe the time, praotice, manner, and extent of such admissions, and thereby decide upon the competency for admission as aforesaid of every such person." The Bill further provides " That every male of good moral character may manage, prosecute, and defend any action, suit, or other proceeding in law whatsoever, civil or criminal, on behalf of any party to such action, suit, or other proceeding aforesaid, if such person be so specially authorised by such party in writing or by personal nomination openly in the Court in which such proceeding may be pending." The Standing Orders oommittee met today, and decided that rule 71 of the Standing Orders provides that the Speaker may call on the Orders of the Day at 7.30 p.m., no matter what question has been left unfinished previously. The rule runs thus: —"When the House proceeds to the Orders of the Day on days on which orders have precedence, and after the notices of motion have been disposed of on all other days, or on the House resuming at half after seven o'olook, as the case may be, Mr Speaker is to direct the Clerk at the table to read the Orders of the Day without the question being put." This means that at 7.30 the Speaker will simply leave the chair and the House will go into oommittee on tbe Representation Bill forthwith. It is said that they will not come out again if possible till the Bill is through. It is thought by the Government party that the obstructors will have to give way. The opponents of the Bill met, thirty-three being alleged to have been present or accounted for. It was resolved to continue hostilities as strenuously as possible. The Speaker's adoption of the new form of procedure gave a death blow to the last and most troublesome form of stonewalling discovered by the Nelson obstructionists. It was intended by them to raise a question of privilege before he left the ohair on the House resuming to-night, but he disregarded the cries of "privilege," and marched solemnly out _of the chamber. The question of privilege which would have been raised was the publication of Mr Reeves' evidence before the Legislative Council Committee, touching hia alleged purchase of councillors' honorariums. This plan, however, was defeated by the action of the Speaker, and the House got into committee on the Representation Bill, where it is likely to stay all the remainder of the week. I hear that the stonewallers have organised themsolves in watohos of three each, and intend to continue their obstruction as obstinately as ever. They say they can keep it up for two months, but nobody believes that they will oarry it out, for the Government side is being equally well organised, and will keep the committee sitting if necessary until midnight on Saturday. It is reported that the stonewallers now will follow the example of the Irish obstructionists, and table ]amendments by the score if not hundreds, and will fight every word and schedule. It has yet to be proved whether they possess the necessary oonstanoy and power of enduranoe to fulfil this threat.