HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11045, 14 October 1898, Page 4

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Thursday, October 13. The Honse met at 2 30. ■ THE LATE MR LARNACH. Mr Seddon usid when la»t night he announced the Bad intelligence of the death of Mr Larnaoh it crested a sensation never before experienced In the history of Parliament, and the like of which he hoped wonld never happen again. Aa the people of the oolony read ot the sad event they would reoognise that nothing in the past history of the oolony has happened whloh had oauaed so much grief and pain, He mast BBk mem hero not to judge their brother harshly. Those who knew htm muat have noticed that hlo health recently was falling, and that hia imperlouo and selfcontained mind hail been undermined. Bad be been in hla usual health he would nave met his worries an brcvely as he bad in tbe past, Membern would cay with him that bla mind bad Bnapped, They muat not look at this phase of Mr Larnaoh'a life, buo at tbe brighter and better DOitlon in which he bad done good eorvlce to tbe colony, Hla memory, he was aure, would ever be reßpectpd by tbe people cf tho ooloDy. He gave a brief resumd of Mr Larnaoh's life, and said he questioned whether they would ever hays aMlaisscrof Mines who would be thought so muah of as the late msmber for Tnapeka. He moved that the House desired to place oa reoord its high sense of the dlstttigui>bcd services rendered to the colony by tha late Mr Lirnnoh. nnd re» specially tendered to Mrs Lirnaoh and family the atunrancß of itu sincere eympathv with them la their irreparable lota, Conoindlug, he said thai nntMog had occurred in hlo (Mr Seddon'o) public life which had effected him bo ruuob, Indeed, he felt qnitennnerved. Captain Russell oald he could find no words to adequately oxpresn tbe pitaf he aud others felt on bo sad ho rccantcn. Is was sad to tbink that to awinl » termination bad some to euob a oareer of lontj nsefnlneio. Tho cbrnpt termination of their friend's life had come as a p-i:a)ys ing ahook to pvery mßtnber of Pitcllnment, many of whom h»rl known him ior aver two decades, He bad passed from this little world, bnt hlfl memory would over remain. After Merers Ward and Fleher bad briefly referred tv tbo late member, the motion was apired to in alienee, end tbe Honae rone at 2 SO till 7 30.