SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.

Mr Thomson followed Mr Rees at 1.30 a.m.

By arrangement the House adjourned at a quarter to 3 for half an hour. On the House resuming, Mr Thomson then proceeded, and at 5 o'clock,

Mr Joyce called the Speaker's attention to Standing Order No. 55, the order by which the Sergeant-at-Arms was to take into his custody any stranger whom he might see or who might be reported to him to be , in any part of the House. He would like to know on whom rested the responsibility of reporting to the Sergeant-at-Arms that the Ministry were disqualified, and as a private member he was quite prepared to report to the Sergeant-at-Arms their presence in the House, and that they were there only as strangers, and they ought to be taken into custody. He would like to ask the Speaker whether the reporting of the matter to the Sergeant-at-Arms was a privilege belonging to a member, or or did it rest with the Speaker himself?

The Speaker "said that the hon, member was not justified in assuming that the Ministry were disqualified.

Mr Thomson was still speaking at 6 a.m.-, wheii the House adjourned until 10 a.m. On the House- resuming, . „ Mr Thomson continued his discburse on things in general, and finished at 8 p.m. , Mr De Latour followed, and continued till 12, when the Speaker adjourned till 10 on Monday. . Some desired to sit on Sunday, but the Speaker said yhe would adjourn until Monday, ririless .objection was taken •; and none was taken.