TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1887, Page 3

TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The report of the Chnroh Property Trust (Canterbury) Bill was read. The report reoommended that the Bill be allowed to proceed. The Phoonix Assurance Bill was read a first time. THE CRISIS. Hon. Colonial Secretary asked tho indulgence of the Council by permitting him to more that the Council do now adjourn. Ho took this step with confidence, .as the Premier in another place was about to state what the intentions of the Government in the present crisis were. He moved that the Counoil do now adjourn till to-morrow, by which time he expected he would be in a position to state which course the Government intended to adopt. Hon. Dr. Pollen objected to the motion. Pay after day the Council had, out of courtesy, adjourned without doing business. Suoh courtesy had now been exhausted, and as there were several private measures before tho Counoil, he thought these should at any rate be proceeded with. The Council had not been placed officially in a position to judge what the objects of the Government were in the present crisis. Hon. W. B. Mantell enquired if no decision had been arrived at as to what course the Government were going to pursue in the present crisis. Hon. W. H. Reynolds trusted that the Council wonld not oppose the motion for the adjournment, which, he assured the Council, was not moved out of any want 'of courtesy to the Council. To-morrow afternoon, no doubt, the Government would be in a position to say what decision they had arrived at. Hon. Robert Oliver objected that common courtesy had not been observed in informing tne Council what the Government intended doing. From what he had learned, he believed the other Chamber would to-day be placed in full possession of what during the past few days had occurred. Hon. George M'Lean, Hon. J. C. Richmond, and Hon. J. A. R. Menzies supported the views propounded by the Hon. Dr. Pollen, each of whom urged tho Hon. Colonial Secretary to take the Council into the confidence of the Government. Hon. Colonial Secretary replied, and in doing so, said he invariably hud evinced a desire to take the Council into the confidence Sf the Government, and he only hoped that is friond the Hon. Mr.' Oliver, when his time came, would act in the samo conciliatory spirit. All ho could say at present was that he hoped by to-morrow to be in a position to inform the Council what were th,e intentions of the Government. The motion' was put and carried, and the Council rose at 2.5 Q.