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(From Our Own Correspondent) Excitement is the House.'
After the usual questions, Ac had been asked Mr Lance enquired briefly of the Premier whether his attention litul been called to the statement made by the Attorney-General to the effect that if the Loan Bill was not passed the country would have to file its schedule.
The Premier replied: "My colleague says lie never used the word." Mr W. P. Beeves hereupon inter' polated" I heard th; Attorney .General use the words."
Mr Scobie Mackenzie who had moved down behind Ministers wished to know whether it was parliamentary to refer in that House to " another place," but was met by cries that another place had not been referred to, and the Speaker said the matter was one for his decision. The Premier then proceeded to explain that tlio Attorney General referred not (0 the schedule of the country, but to that of the Government, This assertion was met with loud ironical laughter. Sir Harry Atkinson regretted that such a serious subject should bo treated with laughter, but' several members declared that they laughed not at, the fiubjcct, but at his (the Premier's) reply. The Premier said the Government were hound to accept the statement ol thoir oolleaguo, and declared that the outside statements which had been made relative to the affair generally were a tissue of misrepresentations. Mr Ttirnbull, deolared that ho, with sflvon other members, was in the gallery and heard the words used by the Attorney General. Ho strongly deprecated notice being taken of the matter simply for the purpose of harassing the Government. He had 110 such intention, but ho strongly advised the Colonial Treasurer either to adjourn the House for a week in order that the Finanoiai Statement might be brought down, or to bring it down that night if possible. The statement of the Attorney General was calculated to do an irreparable injury to New Sealant] and every effort should he made by showing our true position to counteract that injury. Mr Fish followed with a reference to the article which appeared in the Evening Press, Mr Seddon was speak, jiigwlisn tliteiwsgagQ waij fepatglied
(By Telegraph.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2906, 23 May 1888, Page 2
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