Parliamentary Notes.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 30 June 1891, Page 2

Parliamentary Notes.

— . ♦- The Post says that -Mr _)uthie is improving as a publio speaker. Writing on the Debate remarks : — Captain Russell's was an , excellent speech, well arranged, easy in 'delivery, not too heavy in style, and actually bristling with good points. It was perhaps the most effectively damaging attack yet made on the Government proposals. His artillery was lighter than Mr Scobie MacKenzie's, but it was quite as destructive. His bold declaration in favour of the abolition of all exemptions from property taxation, and his illustration of the working of ithe proposed £8000 exemption, produced a marked effect upon the House, and the Labour representatives .were noted to join most heartily iri the well deserved applause which Captain Russell's speech evoked. - An earneat fluent speaker . is. .Mr Kelly, with a Scottish accent, belying the Hibernian patronymic. He says what he has to say rapidly, and > he goes very straight to the poftit fi always, and the point when he has done with it is never in any : doubt. He has a brief for the Minister of Lands, and he speaks to his brief with great vigour. The Times says that Mr T. Mackenzie has a pleasant, rather deep strong voice he has ; he pitches it well, and knows how to modulate it, and he always has words in plenty

for tha modulation process. The modulation gains the ear of the House very quickly, and pleases it. Plenty of energy he has and spirit, aud readiness of resource. The same' paper says Mr Hogg's constituents will read all about the carefully prepared humanity in Hatiadvd, and they will know nothing of the unprepared humanity whioh went to sleep in the Houso. The noise ceasing the House wakes up and the wondering member moves the adjournment. The Reporting Debates Committee are considering whether they cannot devise a scheme regulating the length of the Hansard reports of members' speeches, and also arrange for the revision of the reports in the typoscript " copy," instead of in " proof." The debate on the Financial Statement is expected to continue at least another week, and the last few nights are looked forward to on account of the speeches to be delivered by the leading members of both parties. There will, it is thought, be plenty of the give and take on both sides.