A QUESTION OF PIRVILEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 174, 25 July 1890, Page 4

A QUESTION OF PIRVILEGE.

♦ ■ MR HOBBS GETS OUT OF A WINDOW. (BY TELEGBAPH.—OWN REPORTER.) Wellington , , this day. The evening sitting of the Houee was a perfecb farce. The first order of the day was the Dog Registration Act Amendment Bill, consideration of which had been adjourned from the previous day. A motion to postpone consideration of this Bill_for a week was loet on division by 29 to 24, after which Mr Fish rose and spoke until 8 p.m., when the Speaker's attention was called to the state of the House. The bell having been rung, and a quorum nob being obtainable, the Speaker announced that the House would adjourn till 2.30 p.m. to-day. The count-oub is asserted to have been a pre-arranged scheme to dispose of Mr Walker's Hoepitals and Charitable Aid Act Amendment Bill, which was the fifth on the list, and would in the ordinary course have been reached at an early stage during the evening. Some amusement wae , created while the bell was ringing by the arrival on the scene of Mr Hobbs in a state of profuse perspiration. He rose to inform the Speaker that a number of members had been locked up in one of the ante-rooms, but was promptly called to order, there not being a quorum in the House, and the matter was allowed to drop. It subsequently transpired that Mr Hobbs spoke truly, bub the name of the culprit who locked several of the members up has not transpired. A question of privilege is likely to be raised in the House this afternoon in connection with the count out last night. Mr Hobbs states he left) the House to bring in another Auckland member from the whip's room to prevent a counb out. While there i the key was turned on the outside, locking up half a-dceen members,including himself. Aftera tough scuffle with aSoufchern member, Mr Hobbs escaped by jumping through a window, and after colliding rafeher seriously with another unexpected obstruction in the lobby, he gob back to the House. He then tried to draw the attention of the Speaker Ito the obstructive tactics that had been practised, but found he" wa3 not in order. Sir George Grey is likely to bring the matter before the House this afternoon. In the B.ouse this afternoon Sir George Grey moved, " That in consequence of the proceedings which took place last night, the business set down upon yesterday's order paper should be taken this day, and that to-da/y's business be taken to-morrow or Mondalfy." If this is not agreed to, Sir George will probably demand an inquiry into -the /:'aueo of the " count out." Professor Brown, in a letter read at the Board of Education meeting this afternoon, says bha.b the sciontiticapparatus purchased some time back for the purpose of being lenb to teachers, is not all used in the most satisfactory manner. At his request a committee consisting of Messrs Udy, Luke and Ujpbon were appointed to confer wifch him out the subject. The Westland Board of Education seem to be exercised in regard to the question of home lessons. They have asked the Board of Education in Auckland whether any instructions are issued by the Board or inspectors to teachers as to the amount or kind, of home lessons. It was resolved to reply that there are no regulations on tbe subfeob under the Board, the matter being left to the discretion of the teachers. The inspectors under the Board of Education recommend the following literature and recitation to be prescribed for the Pnpil Teachers' Examination of 1891:— End of first year : Literature, "* Prisoner of ChiUon;" recitation, am prescribed by regulations. End of second year: Literature, Richard 111. ; recitation, part 9of " Ancient Mariner " and " II Penseroso." An accidenb occurred this morning to Mr Henry Probert as he was driving along Beach Road. When near the Railway Station, his horse took fright, at the train and swerved towards the footpath. The wheel of his trap ran on to the kerb and the vehicle was capsized, Mr Probert being buried underneath. fortunately the horse remained, quiet until assistance arrived, and Mr Probert was.then extricated from his unpleasant] predicament. Strange *o say, little damage resulted to the horse, trap end harness, but the owner , got severely Bhaken, though no bonea were broken* ,' ■