PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 220, 27 September 1901, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

[FEB PBSSS ASSOCIATION.J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,. Wkdnesday, 25tb Ssptekheb. i Evening Sitting. The House resumed at 7.30 p.m. Discussing the vote for Tourist# uft Health Resorts, Mr. T. Mockensie suggested that certain portions (f the colony ought to be atocked with ! suitable game as an additional attraction for tourists. Mr. Byrnes suggested payment of subsidies for doctors in back blocks He also ' thought: better sooommodstion should be provided for tourists. Mr. Mc&uire held that acre-fevld be done in the way of advertising the many the ooldbf. The vote passed unaltered. , Miscellaneous Services—£Bl,S9B. Mr. Hutoheson moved that the item " Copies of Review of Reviews for Australasia for January, ,1901, £280," be s'ruck out. S r Joseph Ward explained that thsb issue of the' Review of Revieuu contained a special article on Mew Zealand, and 500 copies of it were sent to the _ Agent-General for distribution and 500 were distributed iu the polonies. Mr. ; Pirani condemned the expenditure as a most improper one. The Premier said the article written by the Rev. Mr. Berry. It was not inspired bjr the Government, and he was still of tiplnton that the advertisement the oolony obtained lnr the article was well worthifaa expenditure, and he asked the Howe to pan the item. In reply to Mjr. Fisher, Mr. Beddon said the money was already paid. Mr. Fither strongly r«sented payment; of .this money to Mr. W. T. S eid, a man who was a traitor to the British Empire. Mr. Seddoo add the Rev. Pr. Fit* cbett was proprietor of the Australasian edition of the Review ofßeviews. Mr. 1 Stead had nothing to do with it. Mr. Fisher oonteoded that the badness connection between Mr. Steed mm ■ Dr. Fitchett still existed.' Mr. G. W. Russell concurred in this view. i Mr. Stddon claimed that, the Aue- ; tralasian' Review of Ewitm was no* owned by a new company, rod'he ao» cepted Dr. Fitcbett's public assurance > that Mr. Stead no longer tad any interest in the journal. t Mr. T. Mackenzie objseted that the oolony should in atiy way oountenanee a paper with wbioh the name of B'ead, a paid,, traitor to his oountry, w»(aa- . sociated. ' t * Mr. Pirani points! out there were , two pro-Boer articles in the issue of < the Review under dfocbssloo. j\ -T*« Mr. Hogg s rongly deprtcattd such , attacks' being made on an able man like Mr. Stead. Sir Joseph Ward said the Govern- , ment had declined to allow the article i to appear in the English edi im cf the Review of Reviews. >■ Mr. Fowdß said that alihiugh be did not agree with many of Mr. Btead's , writings, he resented manifesvatione of I un-British sentiments and feelings . that had been made in the House that . evening. Mr. laurenson expressed similar i sentiments. Mr. Collins thought it was an 111- • advised and injudicious expenditure. Mr, Seddon deprecated the attempts made by several members to injure . the Government by ehargicg it with j patronising a journal with' allegedly i pro-Boer proclivities. He repeated . that months before the article was authorised the Australssian Review of Reviews had renounced all connection f with the English edition. • ) Mr. Barclay said' tbere was no more „ -loyal or patrio(ic { man in the Ausr, tralasian colonies than Dr. Fitchett. He had not been able to discover any- . thii.g in the Review of Reviews of a pro-Boer character. Mr. Ell oodtended ittmms noth- , ing to justify the use of the t money upon such advertisemente. . There was too muoh of party element i in the article under discussion. Mr. G. J. Smith supported the exi cision of the item. The pro-Boer liQr ; perialist question had nothing to do , with the House, and should not have . been introduced. At 12.40 a.m., after a disoosskw T which had lasted upwards of four hours, . Mr. Hutcheeon's motion re the pay- . ment to the Review of Reviews was negatived by 37 to 19. I Mr. G. J. Smith then moved that . the item be reduced by £1 as an iodi- , cation th«t the House disapproves of , such advestisements being published in future. The motion was It st by 33 to 2S, and on Sir Joseph Ward's motion, pro-' gress was reported, and the Hoore rosi at 12.50 a.m.