PARLIAMENT.

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PARLIAMENT.

— • House of Representatives. Telegraph PreßS Association Copyright Wellington, October 20. The House resumed at 7.80, and went on with the discussion of the motion to report progress on the Criminal Code Amendment Bill. Mr Seddon said there were public places in the chief cities in which thousands congregated, and there slanders must be stopped. Regarding tbe proposal made by Mr Herries, he declined to make any distinction in favor of any citizen. There was, however, no danger, for clause five of the Criminal Code Act, with whicb tbis Bill would if it passed be ro-jd, offers a complete safeguard against abuse, and the Bill went further by providing that before there can be a prosecution a magistrate must be satisfied that there had been a defamatory statement. The discussion wa3 continued after supper.