AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 145, 16 July 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

A LEGISLATOR'S LEVITY. Melbourne, July 15. ' Dr. Wilson, a member of the House of Representatives, producing a jaw-bone of an ass, gravely asked permission to lay it on the table in commemoration of tiie record-making speech by Air. Webster during the debate on the censure motion. The ,Speaker said that such a question needed no answer. [Duriug the debate in the House 01 Representatives on the vote of censure proposed by the Labor Party last week, Mr. Webster (Labor) was the only speaker in the House. He held the floor from 11 in the morning till 4 o'clock in the afternoon.] A JOlvtST'S APOLOGY. THE CENSURE DERATE. Received 10, 1.15 a.m. Melfbourne, July 15. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Webster complained of Dr. Wilson's production of u jaw-bone of an ass. It was not only ii n insult to himself lrnt an insult to the flous'e. He asked the Speaker to obtain an apology. iDr. Wil-on expressed regret and stated that lie only intended it as a. joke. The Opposition had been lighting the Government with various weapons, using them as his friend .Sampson had ('one, and so lie had to resort to one of his weapons. The Government hope to bring the censure debute to an end to-morrow. Some hint at the possibility of the application of the closure.