PARLIAMENTARY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1354, 11 September 1883, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

(From our own Correspondent.) Saturday, September 8. The House met at 3 o’clock. Mr Hamlin took the chair as Acting Speaker, and, after prtyers, read several messages from the Governor, assenting to bills, etc. ; also announcing that he had waited on the Governor and presented the Appropriation Bills, which His Excellency had been pleased to assent to. Mr Hamlin then left the chair, when Sir George Grey rose and said he wished to give notice of motion for the first day of next session. Mr Hamlin said he could not receive it, and took the Chairman of Committee s seat. Sir George Grey said that according to all precedent he was quite in order. Members could discuss matters up to . the very moment of prorogation. He insisted on his right to give notice. Major Atkinson said if he did so he would call attention to the state of the House. There was really no quorum. There had been an understanding with the leader of the Opposition that no business should be done.

Sir George Grey said he was no party to any such agreement. The gentleman with whom it was made was not entitled to represent a large section of the House. The very fact of the arrangement showed he was entitled to sneak They had already done business. Mr Macandiew said meml ers were always entitled to speak on any matters until they were called upon to attend the prorogation. He, himself, wished to call the attention of Government to a motion of considerable importance. Sir George Grey said this was the most shameful proceeding he had ever known He would address Major Campbell, and move that Mr Moss take the Chair. Colonel 1 rimble rose to a point of order. The Acting-Speaker was quite in order in occupying, whether the Speaker s chair or his own, and no one was entitled to address the clerk. Mr J. Buchanan and one or two other members rose and continued speaking, as well as Col. Trimble. While the confusion of words was going on, the Sergeant-at-Arms announced a message from the Legislative Council. . Mr Hamlin had then taken the Chair, and the clerk of the Legislative Council was admitted, and requested the members of the House to attend the Commissioners for prorogation. . Before Mr Hamlin could leave the Chair, Sir Grey again protested, and said he held authorities to show that he was right The Acting-Speaker and thirteen members then proceeded to the Council Chamber, preceded by the Sergeant-at-Arms, with the mace. , . In the Couhcil Chamber, the commission to Sir W. Fitzherbert, Sir G S. Whitmore, ? andtheHon Mr Whitaker was read, and they, in His Excellency’s name, prorogued Parliament until Friday, the 20th December. _ a . The following is the notice of motion Sir George Grey wished to give : “To move for leave to introduce on the first day of next session, a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the equitable settlement of claims to land under any regulations to retired sailors of the Royal Navy, soldiers or Volunteers for services performed in New Zealand, or in the event of any such claimant-* having, and to provide for the ascertainment and adjustment of the rights, which the widow or children of such deceased claimants may have to any such lands.