AN ALL NIGHT SITTING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 234, 3 October 1913, Page 5

AN ALL NIGHT SITTING.

HOT PASSAGE OF ARMS

(Received -Oct. 3, 10f50 a.m.') SIDNEY, Oot. 3. The Assembly, sitting: throughout It3ie iiight, (continued rdisettssing the Norton-Griffith irailway loan. The ils meeting with :strqng opposition, ;aird ihere -Tare indications that it will be rejected. Mr Holman, in a hike-warm speech, declared iihathe was not go-| ing to ask fhe ;House?to approve, but; j if it approved ;the Government, intend-; \'ed to get the financial side of the! 'scheme settled -before the House ae-i cepted it. ' Early in ttu^session Mr Wade called! the Premieres attention to his atti-! tuda h\ regard to the Royal' Commission, "and' asked 'if he would re-open <£he matter -so :'as .to include 'the "Medlow charge. .

Hot passages 'of arms ensued, and uproar followed, ending in Mr Holman 'notice -of-"Mr "'Wade's •qxiestion.

* Interviewed, Mr Holman (declared that he had no intention of letting "Mr TVade escape the situation^ .-of calumny into which he haSt p'luhged himself by Iheroics'arid mock'martyrdom. *