The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1882.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4273, 11 September 1882, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1882.

We . referred some days ago to the unsatisfactory manner in which Parliamentary business is conducted, and pointed ..out that the whole..Government policy should be before the country on the opening day of Parliament, at latest. A fenevenings ago Major Atkinson laid the blame at the door of the Opposition for wasting the early part of the session over trifles, but really* the fault lay with the Government for..not furnishing them with solid food to digest. The delay in business formed the subject of an. animated debate in the Legislative Council on Saturday night. On the Roads, Construction Bill being brought on Sir George Whitmore made a strong pretest against the Council having important measures thrust upon them to be hurriedly passed; the practice was one that would bring the Council into disrepute and contempt. The Hon. Mr Holmes made a very strong complaint about the mode in which the business of the Council was conducted, and said that he felt so indignant on the subject that if other members of the Council would combine he would hand in his resignation as a Councillor forthwith, and cease to have ftriy connection with a body where public business was so conducted. The Hon. Mr Reynolds considered if this kind of thing continued—bills coming | before them which they were expected to pass whether they read them or not—the sooner the Council was abolished the better. He would wash his hands from all complicity in passing bills which he had not had time to consider.