DISAGREEABLE INCIDENT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1093, 29 June 1882, Page 2

DISAGREEABLE INCIDENT.

A most disagreeable incident occurred in connection with the presentatives of the Press in Parliament Buildings. IJley HWT hy_a.JUai>proceeding to parts of the building to which they have hitherto had free access. Enquiry was immediately instituted, when it was found that the order had been given by the House Committee in consequence of two reporters having been discovered in a roopi, number forty-eight, adjoining tli'at in which the Opposition caucus was being held, aud m which what transpired in caucus could be overhead. 1 So well known was this that on the same morning an official of tho House, whose duty it is to attend to such matters, requested the Goldfielfl®B Committee, which was to meet in forty-eight, to take another One of the intruders is a clerk and also acts as special pondent for a Dunedin paper, and excuse is that he wanted to write oaH some official notes, and asked other reporter, a lad who acts for an Auckland paper to assist him. Tho . result lias been an imperative order that committee clerks shall write out . their notes in the room set apart that purpose, and which was quite unoccupied at the time the caucus was ' being held. Tho committee clerks will probably also be prohibited from acting ns special correspondents. On the matter being fully investigated all the offensive restrictions placed on uhbffending journalists were imtnedlatoly removed. The affair has created greater annoyance in the press-room than anything that has occurred for years.