PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2723, 12 October 1887, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY

_Seboad Edition.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. • ! ||;.': TUESDAY, OCTOBERIi. '.■... ■' ; Tie House lifepat "7,.'30,, and after a- ;. ' number, of members" fed been, sworn ...... - in,.a message/ was received from bis : Excellency' the governor,' announcing fliat lie would, on Wednesday, declare .his reasons for summoning-Perliame'nt-to meet. ..■•••;•• " •■' " The Prembr having informed -the • • .House of the' members'of the-' new Ministry, said be proposed,' after the • opening of Parliament on the next' . , ''_ day/ to state the course of-.business '-)+y "which the Government would ask the _ Jtfouse to consent to. He then moved ..'; that the House at its rising adjourn .till 2 o'clock next day. Sir Julius Vogel asked who wus" ' Postmaster-General. The Premier: I am Posmaster-

Gercral. In answer to Mr Seddon the Premier V v said he would bo happy to make a ' jkfoteineut if the House wished it, Imperially as he liad so many supporters (Laughtor.) The flouse'would ; meet next day to hear the Governor's ' reasons for calling Parliament together and notice would-then be given for. ■ next day for the Address-in-Reply, and ■ also of the usual sessional committees. He proposed,, as soon as llio debate on tlio Address-in-lleply was completed, . to. move that the House adjourn till Friday fortnight, in order to give him time to prepare tlio Financial State-

mout. On Friday fortnight ho would submit the Statement to the House, s a or ai. tlio latost on the following {& Tuesday. '. Sir Julius Vogol said ho recognised that under the circumstances it would not bo lair to enibarass the Government, but he should like to put it to .the Premier that an adjournment till Friday fortnight virtually meant for throe weeks, for a great many numbers would not come back till Tuesday. Ho suggested that the lion, gentleman .■w&ould consider between that and next whether it would not be advisable to adjourn till next Tuesday week. (Hear, hear.) If tho Financial Statement was not ready then, other business could be gone on with. , There, was a possibility of a short session, and. private members might be . afforded an opportunity of bringing on 1 their Bills. . . Mr..-Ormond -thought tho course proposed by .the' Premier.'would save "time, if he met •the" House with the Financial .Statement as. ho proposed 'on the Friday. '.. • ; ■ 'Mr Seddon said tha,t the lion, ge'rittleman had not. pledged himself to bring it down on the Friday., He pointed out that in 1884; tho Govern: ment'wero unable. to,go on.--.with the business without-much delay. Major- ,:'.,.. -AtkinsOn 'had had'four' months in •" : ' : which to get-his policy ready, and had '■ tho benefit of tho'-report of a Royal Commission. : •Mr Sarhuelapprovod the proposals ¥ the Premier, : In 1884 they -Mourned from day to day, and nothing ■ AgKtg done-.-- He.remembered what 'was (/dono on that, occasion, and hoped the . same .tactics- wore not going' to be repeated now. (Hear, hear.) The 'Premier, in reply, said'' nobody • wasmorfi anxious" than ho was to bring • '• the Financial Statement down as soon '• aspossible.-aiidget the session, to, an end. .(Hear hear, and laughter), Tho position would not bear comparison with that Of 1884. ' Tho late Government came in to carry on affairs as they stood, with simply tho differ- • ence of seizing the sinking fund. They f accepted all his figures. Now ho had to alter every figure. Tho Government . had asked for the vory shortest time possible, and if they -succeeded in bringing down the financial statement by Friday fortnight they would accomtask that had nover before been accomplished by this Parliament. If he.could not get it ready by Friday, .: )jto) should be as much disappointed as 'Jm gentlemen. - "' The motion that the House at its rising adjourn till two o'clock the next day was then.put and carried. • i .;; The Premier moved that the Houso now adjourn. Sir Julius Vogol said the Premier . . had introduced k new matter, Ho ' • (Sir Julius) did not wish to go into a aobate, but he could not allow it to go. forth to the.word unchallenged that the lion, gentleman cams into offico with greater difficulties before him than ho left to the Government which succeeded him in "1884. j|l Sir Juliiis wont on to remark- that ho fP presumed the speech would be of that "'■ ; " class which Binrply stated what the I nature of tho''.business of the session would be, and not one that disclosed tie'policy of the Government as that '■•■•" of 1884 did. If it wero'a speech which nvolved largo questions of policy, he was not bound by what he' had said to. Hay that it would pass without debate. tThe Premier said' he was sorry he uldnot gratify thehon; gentleman's riosity as to the nature of the speech. . . (Laughter,)Sir Julius Vogel: I did not ask that. Tho Premier: No; the hon. gentle- • man thought he might get it without asking. However, he could tell him .that it was a very nice little speech. (Laughter.) He denied that he had introduced now matter, and remarked that Sir Julius Yogel did not represent the House or the Opposition! .;_ . Tho motion for the adjournment was jft then carried, and the Houso roso at "8 ,v •, o'clock.—Times. , ; ;' THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. ,■ .•■ (Med Press Association.) > • . Wellington, October 12.. '" The Premier has received a cable- '. gram from the Premier of Victoria, stating that the firia,l date for receiving *f!i; . applications for space at the Melbourne -■ Centennial Exhibition- is.tho 81st of December next. ;■ ' .. fc ■We notice that Mr and Mrt'J; Day and • -/pbrnily, wlvo left Maaterton for England : jn the early .'part of'/hia year, arrived in . Wellington by the Rimutaka on Sunday •'_ , last/ Mr J, Jonqs, lato of Messrs H enry. ' ' a passenger by the same boat,