PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 286, 27 August 1908, Page 9

PARLIAMENT.

\ THE ESTIMATES DISCUSSED.

\ REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. COUNCILLORS ON THE FARRIERS BILL. \''V; A LATE SITTING. ; . The Upper Houso spent most of yesterday's sitting in discussing tho Farriers Bill; which it'^has' rojectod on two previous occasions. Finally, tho second reading was carried by a majority of one, but it was obvious that amendments will bo moved when, tho Bill gets,into Committee.' In the House practically the whole of tho afternoon ■ was occupied with .discussions on the replies of Ministers to questions. . Tho discussion was of'a general character, and oontainod, littlo of striking interest. In tho'ovcning\ after passing Mr. Fisher's Bill to apply the Parliamentary franchise to municipal and- doaling. variously with other private members' Bills, tho House resumed its consideration of tho Estimates.', • Mr % M'Nab was at-tho" table, for hours, answering eritiaisms and giving information about tho Department of Lands and Survey and the Valuation Department. The subdividing of grazng runs, the salaries of surveyors, and tho alleged exaggeration of larid.vali\es by the Gov-, ernment valuers were some of\the subjects of Tho House th'en passed to the Education^'Class.