"A TREBLE EVENT."

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1916, Page 5

"A TREBLE EVENT."

RECORDS IX PARLIAMENT. . I . BUDGET DKHATE COLLAPSES. ,| A GOVERNMENT COUP, J (Bv Telegraph.—Smvial to Daily News.) 1"j Wellington, T,a't Xfqht, f Tlie House but hren pultiiif; nn r-eords. 1 to-day At the afternoon fitting It | passed nn linprol Supplv Bi'J fn» I £031,800 in two minutes ami three. '3 quarters, by the clock, anil nt the even- 1 iiiff session'disposed <'f (lie KndK.ii even | without* the dehue h-w'.iiß b.'smi. To 1 cap these two performamc* il J the first iiem m; ;ln- K-tinioti-i for only 1 ten minutes or »o, end by ■>!j-lit o'clock 3 had adjourned, and the "treble event." i* u| one flippant nymber ,)ia it, is a nniqiW | experience in ill." history "f Parliament, tf Tlie collapse or ■•ntlier (lie absence, 'tf '.| tlie debate on the Budget ivm quite mi* -a expected. The Government'* oropoiwta.-J had opened up a \er\ wide field for di*» % enssion, and Mini«trr- anticipated "V'"! least ten :lnys of tilkini;. An unusually J largo number of members had announced J their intention to -peak, and nnny ol # them had spent long hours prepirisu) J their Hpeeches. '.| Various explmatioiis n," vli'.i '"*P".I pened are current teirjiht. Tie' >no?f.jfl credible is tha: Mr. Wilford who. h/il common conn'iit. bus been given pn!r-«va| deuce on such oee.Hion* since the forrmvjl tion of the X.iti'jiml Cabinet, h.-.i fallsoH to let his !iieii Is know of his absenw^f from town, and that .i*hi!.' they ,7<l ltS looking round fr.r his rturdy figure, thj|| motion was put, c.nd the Hoaße, wiihouraj realising the position, round itself Wffl| committee. If il was a coup deslgnwl by the Governm<n : in order to save tinrojl it was admirably excelled, witIIOSWJ aeriouslv afTrontinj: anyone ' -;H Whether or not ihe failure of thwj Financial debate really .viil save WnwH remains to be seen, *ind, of course, it I|9 open to member.-, to take as many hOlrtfß and days in discussing the Bills requiMM as they might have taken in discilttulM the proposals themselves. Uin pgH likely tliat all those prepared spetOflgM will be left unspoken. Mr. Maaaey *jH Sir Joseph Ward, however, are hOjri^^f for the beßt, and meanwhile the Mbra^H of Finance is jestingly pluming hiaJM upon having produced a Budget' 'ImH ha* i»W Sierj W^K'^HHi