AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11098, 17 October 1901, Page 5

AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING.

(SFVCIAL Td ''THE FBEgS.") WELLINGTON, October 16. Witt the exception oi adjournments for meals $he> House ha* been continuonsdy sitting eince JiaJf-paet two yesterday;, afternoon, and "we have had a most pronounced example o! legislation. 'True to his determination to get the remainder of the Estimates through before the House rises, Mr Seddon ban kept his following at the call of duty, afld ,the natural result wae that throughout.the day there have been more drowey aaembeis in ti» House thhn %ride awake, ones. At any time during the day

one might have counted a dozen pallid, heavy-eyed legislators etretdied full length on their comfortable benches oblivious to the desperate jiruggle, waging round the Defence EstimsfM®. Th© Defence Department was reached at 3 a.m., members had been treating the Government to a stating of compla.mte on almost every item. The Tagirs incident alone wai responsible for a full three hours , debate. At an eaVly hour this morning a section of t>hte Government sup porters went ihome to bed, leaving Mr Sed-don with a majority, an<3 1 when they retia-ned refreshed fehe faithful watehei"s, or those of thean who desired. . took tlmr turn in bed. But it has been a very sleepy House a? 1 day, and as fcwk o{ sleep is not conducive to sweet tempers, 1 -we have had two or three little "incidents, ,, ■ whkb not for the conciil j tory I«cne of thte principals.