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OUT AND IN.

(From the Canterbury Press.) Diaqualifieaitfon Act Amendments are about to become apparently a feature of each session. Our readers no .doubt remember the very re-' markable scenes which took place in the House when it was discovered that the late Ministry •were disqualified. On that occasion the present Premier said that ho felt that they lived in evil times. The year before, he went on to . teay, the Government could not close the session without bringing down an Act of IndcmL .'v to indemnify some of their supporters for . - 'hes of the Disqualification Act, which thev n.''£bt have committed. That year the fovermr ' nt came dowll and asked for an in ‘ demnitv to ,ave themselves. “ I say, sir,” he “fi 'at tlietimesaroevilinwhichsuch Acts of Indemm> ca “ be carriod b ? lal ’S e ma i°‘ X and t“e M‘-^ tr^ Can Y BS d °r which would secure & themeeWeß seats which they have justly forfeited*' and to .rob them constituents of tho righ't » f members in their place if cbo ■ , do.” Well, another, session t* commenced, and again a similar question baX been raised. This time the gentleman who gavt? ’‘tteran o to the doctrine enunciated in the w | have made is also supposed to have fo.'teitea his seat in the House, and placed him’®?* 1 within tho scope of the penal clauses of the Disqualification Act. Accordingly, a Disqualification Bill is introduced, the last clause of which reads as follows “No person shall be liable to any forfeiture or penalty heretofore incurred under any Act repealed by this Act.” It would appear, therefore, that the times have not greatly improved since the advent of the present Ministry into power—that we still “live in evil times”—times in which Ministers bring down Bills to “ secure to themselves seats they have justly forfeited.”

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5450, 14 September 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

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OUT AND IN. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5450, 14 September 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

OUT AND IN. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5450, 14 September 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

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