PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12629, 17 October 1905, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

By Telegraph,

(From Ova- Special Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, October 16. lne proceedings dn the House to-night • ga«M? a fo?- A benevolent, tardily just Bill for giving land to landless nat^es entered, wrapped up in the fog. Ihe Minister of Lands introduced both Bill and fog. _ Expectations ran high of making capital or the Shops and Offices Bill, to be sent down from the Council. When the Loan Bill entered, by Governo_r f message, went higher, till its further progress was stopped by the Premier indicating that the discussion on the public work® estimates arising out of this Bill will,- if the House does good work in the interval, be reacht? n Wednesday or Thursday . ' Expectation fell back on' the rihops and scores, which entered together wj-tlh a batch of other measures from the Legislative Council, in the wake- of com© repoi-ts on the Property Law Consolidation Bill. The reports out of the way e -i-™d,, tune'*° notice that the Electoral Bill was with -t/he Shops and Offices ■in the midst of the bunch, all containing alterations of which the Council requested the acceptance. "a Nfst sitting day," said the Premier, and the fire works sought exterior darkness together with the expectation concerning the same, and the House sat down to a useful night chiefly of grey shadows;

Mr Heke, in catching sight of the Kiaiapoi Native Reserve Bill, made a determined attempt to bolt over the exciting course of the whole history of Maori Reserves, but the watchful Premier firmly and promptly tripped him up with "point of order." The Maori champion disclaimed as well as his spilt condition enabled him any intention of obstructing, and the business passed placidly over him. ;■ At a later stage Mr Smith indulged in one of his fits of surprise at the expense of Mr Hogg, who had laid violent accents on some Taranaki education reserves that happened to be passing jusfc then. The House smiled at the surprae, ffut declined to take any notice of Mr Hogg and violent acosnts. Workers' compensation for accidents aused the customary cough, but on ■ thisccoasion the attack was light, and 'Ma-r Arnold, having on behalf of tlhe Labour Bills Committee promised the Bill a'hearty welcome and a prompt return, the measure sailed out quietly under open orders to return on Friday. cough "about another labour 'n^asure^mdustrial conciliation and arbiti^atipnf compilation. The leader of •the,;. Opposition was the oougher. He 'had<.gen«ral suspicious thoughts with a snort that sending the measure to the .■Lrab.o-Ur Bills. Committee would prevent •ithe^e ibecoming particular. He was interrupted by Sir W. Steward, trumpet;ing'out;:deoisively that the Bill which had, come doTvn from "another place " had already passed the Labour Committees', ©r-daal and collapsed. The Amend- ; menfc Bjll O of the same name was read a second time and referred to the Com- ■ mittee,..and the business went smoothly on.