PARLIAMENTRY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4480, 26 July 1893, Page 2

PARLIAMENTRY.

i House of Representatives, » TUESDAY, JULY 25. LEAVE OF ABSENCE, Further leave of absence for one „ week was granted to Sir George Grey, " on aocouot of ill-health. A week's ' leave of abßence,on acoount of urgent > private business, was given to Mr 1 Mitchelson. 3 SIR B. BTODT AND MR FISH. 1 Mr Fish afterwards proposed the ' adjournment of the House, in order to j Bpeak concerning the Fernhill Rail, j way, preferring charges against Sir i Eobert Stout to the effsot that he 1 was the real owner of the line through | being mortgagee, and urging that he I ought not to obtain a preferential ads vantage over other creditors, with the ' assistance of the Government. ! Sir Robert Stout, seconding the , motion, said he thought it better that i this matter should have been brought before the House than it should have 1 been talked about in the lobbies, and insinuations tnado against him behind hia back, as the member for Dunedin . had been doing. Sir Robert Stout then explained the oircumstances of ' the Fernhill Railway. Mr John , Logan bought jt for a certain sum, , and borrowed the money from his firm, who held a first mortgage, I while there was also a seoond or third 1 mortgage against the line. All that ' had been asked was that the Governi ment, as practically the trustees for i the private company w.h°. owned the : ' line, should band the line to thtspri- , vate company to construct, tie suggested, that the Bill when it came, before the Jlonse should go before an impartial committee of Opposition < members, who would investigate it fully. The motion for adjournment was ' lost. The Financial Debate m then ie- , finmed.