PARLIAMENTARY HOLIDAYS.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 91, 12 November 1879, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY HOLIDAYS.

The colony, we fancy, will hare been surprised t#. learn that our legislators "Save given themselves a holiday, and with so much, t important, business vet remaining to be got through, have ; thougjb,t £t io go gallivanting down to Canterbury to visit the agricultural jshow a?d the races, under the auspices I 6i the ''Government, and with the G6<vernmeiit steamer placed at "their'disposal. The boys of our icolonial St. 'Stephen^, it is; true, m petitioningtheir principal for this holiday/ wiih^ a modesty" much to be cdinineridedi: re{l framed from any allusion to the immense amount of hard woi'k Which; th^y'liare /gone^h-roughl this Seksibri, but^urged as a reason for their request being granted that the holiday would not- enferoach .upjjri . ther.real working: time of- the^ Session;, This y»lea, t6 ciir mind, only ■hialies : t\i6 "^clatter worse,; asj it shows how very easily our senators are rconi- ; tent .to take -things. The colonists we -feet sure'would mufeh rhave preferred tb'have seen a resolutibh Bamedto- the effect that pwing to the laygea'mount of business still before thernf it is desirable that for the' i i emainder ; of the* Session, tlie House shal^ sit on Mondays a.nd .Saturdays.; The exigency of the case 'tfemands ih'af' such a course should be adopted. /We hare, now arrived at the { middle of jNoveinberi and' m a few'days noriorabV; -members ■ will^aturally^ be anxious ; to; return to their homes'to look 'after their own private affairs. There ;ara still, however, a number , of important measures to be disposed of, which • wilt reqube-grave deliberatign: and ex^ ■haustive 'debater and unless out repre. «ehtativies (f ' i t|ake y matters ' a little v leis ■easily; j ;aua apply th^s|lyes energ xetically' to the. work' ; before them- .these berushed through '■^^'^WS'eJi-yntEOjijiti due. consideration being. giyen,^ttiemi , or^^to.be :inQiuded in^thej^serinnnate; v", Blanghter iSE''the innocents -V whichjAnnually takes^ jplace rtowards ..the-. close ofCthe^Session:. ' '^ ._• There is, hpwever,Ya' isife* tor ne^ftly, every picture/ and withLregard' tolthis holi'day-maririe.excursion we may be permitted to Eope that a stiff sou> reasfcefc wilf have operated so ' wholes somejy upon .members^^ ;that •Jtheylwill not have suißScieiit :bil|^ft m their toonsjiitutions on tlieir return,; as' t6 d'e^lojjje itself m personalilies or party m vective, and that f riendlyri^ter:;COU^ie^uring^thiß ■ tr}p ) i will v have each of -the: others!/ wortU. be able to pull; together amicably during the remainder^ of the fc 'Sessiqn/ ami x thus expedite " the despatch of business." - ; : : V v