EVENING SITTING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 223, 20 September 1907, Page 2

EVENING SITTING.

The House resumed at 7.30 p.m

THE LATE HON. W. KELLY,

The PRIME MINISTER announced the death of the Hon. vfm. Kelly at Auckland. He then read a detailed statement of the deceased's servces to New Zealand. He stated that the deceased would always be remembered as a very genial and good man. He had suffered illness a long time, and he (the Prime Minister) said that he was voicing the opinion of the House in expressing sympathy towards the deceased's family, and in moving that the House adjourn in sympathy until to-morrow. He moved : "That this House records its high sense of the faithful services rendered to New Zealand by the late Hon W. Kelly, and the loss this country has sustained by his death; and respectfully tenders to his relatives the assurance of its sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement."

Mr MASSEY "eulogised the deceased statesman, and regretted his loss. He was, he said, one of the typical settlers of the Colony in the early days. He had looked well after the welfare cf his constituents and did his duty to the Colony, and had not made an enemy during his long connection with Parliament. He seconded the motion.

Mr HERRIES also expressed his regret at the decease; of the hon. gentleman, and stated that the deceased was an institution in the Bay of Plenty, which district he had represented faithfully and well. Mr FLATMAN also spoke in eulogistic terms of the deceased's services and qualities.

The House adjourned at 7.40 p.m until to-morrow.