A Long Sitting.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4437, 17 July 1909, Page 3

A Long Sitting.

London, July 15. t" u - h -House of Commons sat continuously lor 182 hours, discussing the land proposals of the Finance Bill. Ministers and “embers frequently slept on the benches while maintaining the “House'” A 8 "nail body of Uni mists continued a relentless criticism of the Budget during the whole of the night. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Lloyd George, proposed to apply a closure to 32 lines of the Bill, but Mr Emmett, Chairman of Committees, refused to accept a guillotine motion. Finally several attempts to block progress were defeated, and the Bill was passed to the end of clause 5, when progress was reported.