IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 22 March 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE

[press association.! (Received March 22, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, March 21

The Speaker, in reply to Mr J. G. MacNeil, said that if anybody believed thai Mr Balfour in' receiving the previous day's ■deputation in using the words "fraud 1 " and "criminal legislative- conspiracy" intended to impute thai Ministers' conduct was capable of beiag indicted, it was obvious that a breach tof privilege had been committed. But he held that no mala fides was imputed. They knew that in. tihe ardor of a political .contest words were often considerably strained. He felt confident there had beem no breach of privilege.