PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7959, 24 October 1905, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

MONDAY, OCT, 23. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, The Council met at 2.30. The Medical Practitioners Bill was read a second time. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The House met at 3.30 pan. The report of the Commission in the case of the four Cluistehurch, postal officers was ordered to lie on. the tabic. The Public Petitions Committee reported on the petition presented pray. 113 that a full public inquiry be held into the alleged improper pay--meat to Captain Seddon. As a Royal Commission had been set up tho*'' Committee had no recommendation to make. A motion by Mr Mas'sey that the stage system should be given a trial on one of the sections of the New Zealand railways was lost by 35 to IS.

EVENING SITTING. The House resumed at p.m. Mr Massey raised a question of privilege on the ground that certain leaflets containing political matter of a party character had been placed in members' boxes without the sanction of Mr Speaker. He moved that a breach of privilege was thereby „* committed. The Speaker said there was no •landing order to prevent matter of „ the kind complained of being placed in members' boxes. A lengthy discussion was brought! to a close by moving the "previous question." The second tho Electric ' Lines Bill was Jioslponcd, Sir Joseph Ward said there was a good deal of misapprehension' concerning the Bill, and he desired to have a conference with its oppoW cuts. j