NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8926, 15 December 1887, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

DISORDERLY SCENES.

FOURTEEN MEMBERS NAMED.

[RENTER'S TELEGRAM.]

Sydney, December 14. The Assembly has sat all night on Mr. Dibbs' motion of censure on the Government. The proceedings have been very disorderly. Fourteen members, including several principal members of the Opposition, having been suspended from the sitting. The motion that the question be now put was carried without a division. Mr. Dibbs' motion was also rejected without a division—so many of the supporters of the vote of censure having been suspended.

Later.

The evening sitting of the Legislative Assembly yesterday was one of great confusion and disorder, culminating in a scene the like of which has never been equalled in Parliament. When the cloture was applied, on the question being put, member after member • rose and protested against the action of the Speaker, and each was successively named, and removed below the gangway by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Fourteen members, all of the Opposition, were thus dealt with, among them being Messrs. Dibbs, Lyne, Garrat, Melville, O'Sullivan, Orier, Walker, Hassall, and Watt. It was not until Mr. Dibbs' motion censuring the financial proposals of the. Government had been rejected that the members " named " returned to the Chamber. Great ill - feeling was manifested throughout the proceedings; which, today, has been the subject of much comment. The House did not rise until after ten this morning.