HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5769, 17 August 1880, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Monday, August 16. '* The House met at 11 a.in. „ .: A , '!.- I , •'■ *• : ". MR IRELAND S DEATHi <• * immeiiiately on the House assembling .Mr -Hall referred to the death of Mr Ireland. He said he felt himself unable to. do justice to the many virtues of the late member for Wakaia. H<_|£ gentlemen all knew the quiet, unassuming, and j conscientious manner in which Mr Ireland had discharged his duties, and he was so assured of the general sympathy of the House that -it relieved him of the necessity of dilating on the subject. It was, understood, Mr Hall added, to be the.. desire of the deceased gentleman's friends that he should be interred amongst them, and the Government thought that in facilitating that desire they would be only giving effect to the wishes of the House and the country at large. Arrangements had therefore been made for the remains of the deceased to be conveyed by- the Government steamer to Lyttelton and thfehce by rail to the district in which the deceased had resided. The remains would have to leave the house where the deceased had lodged at 2 o'clock, and to enable hon. members to pay a last tribute ipTtiie memory of the deceased he would moveTthe adjournment of the House till LMfc , Macandrew se'condfed the motion. He said that few knew better than himself the worth of the member whose loss the House had to deplore. His conduct had always been irreproachable and had won the esteem of all, _ without regard to the £.ide.7of7the House to which they belonged. 77rSiiy George Grey was sure that all ihembibrs on his side of the House felt graceful for the prompt arrangements made by the Government to give effect to the wishes of the deceased gentleman's friends. He could endorse all that had been said of the high character and worth of the late member. His death, too, had occurred under circumstances which could not fail to awaken feelings of deep sympathy. In the midst of his public duties his career was brought suddenly to a close. The name of the deceased would long be held in remembrance as that of a good man who had done hia duty conscientiously and well. Mr Fulton bore testimony to the high estimation .in which .the deceased was held amongst the constituents whom he represented.' 7They had taken him from his claim as. a working miner and paid the expenses of his election, and they had done thai not because of his peculiar talents or abilities, but because he was an honest upright man in whom they could place implicit confidence — a man who could never be induced to do anything that was contrary to his convictions. He Was' I*.,man1 *„m an who was conscientious to a fault, 7 and ih that House he had gained the.Te'spect (>f everyone with whom he was brbugh.t,into contact. He was an honor to the constituency by whom he was electedikuTHeriwasan honor to the House, and an .honor to all those who were privileged like himself to call him their friend. He (Mr Fulton) had been an intimate friend of the deceased, and he felt he could not say. less bf him, and it was not for him to say more. * The motion for adjournment was carried, and the House rose.