PARLIAMENTARY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 1890, 7 November 1904, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY.

On Saturday morning the High Commissioner Bill was read a second timo in the Legislative Council, by 28 votes to four. The biil was committed and progress reported. At the afternoon sitting some amendments were made in the Bill, after which the bill was reported, read a third time and passed. At the afternoon sitting of tho House, on the motion of the Premier, tbe council’s amendments in the Bill were disagreed with. “ The Lords " considered ihe situation at the evening sittiug, and stultified themselves—or, at least, a majority of their number did—by agreeing to a motion by the AttorneyGeneral not to insist upon their amendments in tho Bill. The council, as a body, thus failed to riso to the ocoasion, as they did in regard to the Referendum Bill. The Premier has now tbe dearest wish of his “ bleeding ” heart gratified, and the Legislative Council, by 14 votes to 8, has notonly not justified its existence, but ba3 plaoed another nail in its legislative ooffin. So much‘for the efficacy (?) of our parliamentary institutions 1 In the House the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act Amendment Bill, the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill, and other bills were put through their final stages, and tho Hoivj rose at 11.00 p.ru.