PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

Press, Volume XXXII, Issue 4422, 2 October 1879, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

_3—»_ ons Q—_—rroKo—<—s.l WELLIN_TON, October 1. The whole of lsst night, from 7.30 to midnight, was occhpied with the speeches of Mr Hslll, Sir G. Grey and Mr Saunders. Mr Hall's speech was quite a pattern to the House, and contained more than any other speech I remerater to have heard. He lost no time for show or flourish, bnt at once proceeded with an orderly array of circumstantial charges of a character that could e—ily be disproved, if untrue, and which could leave no doubt of the utter —ifitness ef the members of the Ministry for any office, if true. There was too a temper and impart—l manner that left nothing to desire. When n» sat down after speaking for an hour and* half, Sir Ift. Grey found nothing that he could reply to, and simply made a few futile denials withont a single fact or proof of any kind, and at once went off into his old speech, delivered at the Bink at Christchurch, and the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, with come of the wildest parts left out. He spoke an he—' and five minutes, and was followed by the member for Cheviot, who spoke an hour and a quarter, and condemned Sir G. Grey out of his own month. This afternoon Mr Speight made a long and fluent speech, which was bated on information evMently inspired from his chief, and containing very little truth. Hie confidence is too complete andTiis manner too self-sufficient, and shows too moch of the paid lecturer to be appreciated, and there was a thin House when he sat down. His command of language is great, but marred with a slight accent, a little deflcienoy in his acq—_i—nee with Murray, and very v_gar manner and choice of terms towards his opponentMr Speight was followed by a member of a widely different stamp, Cot Trimble, who is slightly less fluent., ___tely less self-suffi-cient, and who at once brought the House back to the business before it by some quiet _—nswerable arguments, and some gentlemanly reproofs to Sir George Grey's tirade against English statesmen. At 5.30 he was putt—g facts in juxtaposition with the Governments statements regarding Maori a——rs, in a very effective manner. After a dreary speech from Mr Moss, the Opposition tried to get a division to-night, but after the ayes hid been given Mr Gisborne rose to prevent a division. The division wo—d hare been forty-five against the Government.

The Be—dent Magistrates Act, 1867, Amendment B_ a introdacv ' by Mr Pitt, contains only one enacting .use, as follows:— ° Whenever any oorpor—ion or incorporated company sh—l be a plaint—: in any Resident Magis__«'« Coast, the application and deposition on o—— —quired by section thirtyfour ef the -Besids— Magi-trate's Act, 1867, shall (if in ether respects s—Sdent) be deemed sti—to—it, if __le by any officer or agent of sash corporation or incorporated company en behalf thereof." I. was wpo-fcsd this morning, on the aothnrity of an ex-___ier, that » reeon■__&toa of the_s_»toy wfll toksp_ee,with Mr __3*r—rew as Premier, and J& B—lanoe ac T»_saee. It was _bo stated that Mr Pyk* wWW f~P_«ct this recoMtrnction,