THE COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1507, 1 August 1912, Page 6

THE COUNCIL.

RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY. The Legislative Council met al -.'lO p.m. Tlio Hon. 11. D. 11LLL asked Ihe permission of the Council to move without notice: "That a respectful address-I>u presented to his Excellency the Governor, requesting his J-Ixcelleney io convey lo his Majesty's principal Secretary, of Slate for llio Colonies, for presentation to the Japanese Government, tho expression. of th« do-;p sympathy of the Legislative Council of Now Zealand with the Lmpress and lloyal Pnmily of Japan, and uilh the Japanese nation, oil tho death of his Imperial Majesty, tho Mikado." "The lOiuperor," said Mr. Bell, "was- tlio monarch of a great- nation, tho ally of our own. In his time all tlio reforms have been carried'out' by which Japan .has become,-.like ourselves, a: nation .governed by^ ,, n: constitutional.method. ..Ho .has \vt-n the ..love and honour 'of- his own-subjects, and; the respect'not only .of'.his allies,, of Great Britain, b;st of. all ,-the-; nations- . of tho. West, and for: the first- iiuliy iii his reign, an Eastern nation cnleredv.inlp a formal alliance with the c-ivilis-.ltnn of the West. The sorrow that his.own people feel is like that of the li-omans of old, who mourned their lOmperor us a god, and ours is but the expression of Ihe feeling which, 1 'believe, all who speak tho English language have—a love for tlio man. sympathy with t hq people, with tho ' family that mourn 'him." Tho Hon. O. SAM I~EL seconded tho motion. "Ju tho death of tho Mikado, tlio Emperor of Japan," lie said, "tho world has lost one of the greatest men that have figured in its history." The motion was carried. A resolution.expressing the sense of tho Council of tho service rendered to Ihe State by the lion. R. Oliver, and of sympathy with his witlow, was agreed to r.n the motion of the Hon. H. D. Hell.' Tho deceased gentleman was ail ex-member of llio House of Representatives, and he sat for . ten years as ;i member of tho Legislative Council, resigning in 1901. A. similar . resolution was affirmed in respect of tho death of Mr. Eugene .T. O'Connor, who had also served as a member of both-Chambers. The Hon. 11. D. HELL asked members to allow all ordinary business on tha Order Paper to stand over, and moved that tho Council, at its rising, should adjourn until 2.30 p.m. the next day, nut of respect for the memory of ihe Mikado and the two late members of tho Council above-mentioned. It would bp necessary, however, to pass tho Imprest Supply Bill that day., The Council adjourned at 3.5 p.m., and resumed at S p.m. Tho Imprest Supply Bill passed through all its stages. The I ion.: H. D. BELL (Minister for Internal Affairs) announced that his •Excellency had been pleased, on the adviao of his Ministers, .to appoint tho Hon. T. Mackenzie to be High Commissioner for New Zealand in London. The Hon. K. A. Loughnan, the Hon. J. 11. Jenkinson, and the Hon. W. T. Carncruss severally congratulated the Hon. T. Mackenzie on his appointment, and tho Government on tlio wisdom of the choice Blade. Tho Council rose 'at B.S p.m.