PARLIAMENTARY

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LII, Issue 2602, 30 August 1901, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES, August 27.

The resumption of the Financial debate wa< made the fi st order of the day for Wednesday.

Mr Field g*ve notice to ask the Government whtther its attention had been drawn to lie foimttijn cf an Australasian Chambr of Commerce in London, and whether it i< mie, a3 reported, that ihe Agent-General of : hia Colony is holding aloof from this or ga isation pending instructions from his Government, and whether it is the intention of the Government to co-operate with the rest cf Australia in this movement.

Sir Joseph Ward moved the adjournment of the House as a maik of reßpeot to the memory of the late Honourable James Kerr. He paid a tribute to the oharaoter of the deceased legislator, and said it was owing to his knowledge as a pressman and his experience on publio bodies that he was, in 1892, aeleoted as one of twelve new

appointees to the Legislative Council. It had always been his aim to do his best fot hn fellow men, and it would be some consolation to the members of his family to knowthat he .bad left, behind him a quiet, dignified personality, which would be remembered by hia colleagues. -. F , 3 The mooiou was carried unanimously in ailence.

August 28.

Tho Stud Bill was read a first time. A Committee was set up to enquire how certain evidence, given before tbe Gold-fields Committee, had been published in the Dunedin " Star " before it had been reported to* the House. - V V The debate on the Financial Statement was continued by {Messrs James Allan, Witheford. G. W. Russell, Ell, and Lawry. Mr Gilfedder moved the adjouanment.