THE APPROACHING END.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 53, 17 October 1911, Page 4

THE APPROACHING END.

lilt* cud 01 tiie present session of /arlkuneirl is an. in sient, anil caniiila ies tor tne next I'mnanient w in) nave oecn chilling under the restraints of their duties in Lin' House, will he m e to pour lortn tiieir eloijuenee at .very centre. Tnen will those recording; .niseis, I In- busy serines, have nine;) to do in loliouinp; with tne furaid iuh' of Liilis. Wellington “.Dominion” s:i) s Unit when the i'rinie .Minister slated oil Friday that one more week of work miniit liriug tne ses- : inn to a close Ills forecast was re-

nanled hr a rood many people as op- • i;nit i<•. ’ Nmv, however, thr prevailin'.;' opinion sarins to hr that tar I ocean st will prohahly hr harm- out. A caucus ol ihr Liberal irarty was iirhl an h’l iliay nirht and a Cabinet ii’.srtin r on i! i o to Ii o -a. ina day. As an upshot it is understood that a- si rone; etlorl will hr niadr in roiuplrtr tlir won-ine; nreeTainme ol the session in ! l;r p "d ,d named hy I hr IVimr Alinis--Irr. There would necessarily hr same curtailment ol' the legislative i>roorati'.'Ui even in its latest revised version hut pronine; of i his kind is no iinn, tiiinn; in the urncee'dinns oh tiie New Zealand Parliament, parti-

cr.larly in recent years. In any ease, a. numher of members now' hold I l:e view that they v. ill ho tree' to po io ia, cnmlry a I iho end ol the week. '.no slieat, colour is lent to this new I>y I lie ain.'oniiceinc nt that Iho lion. H. McKenzie lias agreed 1" drive the first; pile nl tiie i! ui: 11> Bride. on Monday, October ‘2.!. !o Inis the Minister would have to leave Wellington on Saturday. and 1 -■mild not return hofore Tuesday. It i:- hardly likely that lie would consent to he absent for so lone' II the session wore likely Io he still in progress. The Mills which the (Government is practically hound to pass hefore the prorogation number somer.hiiifi like half a dozen, and o! these two at least, tin' Land and Income Tax Bill and the Appropriation Lilt are formal in character.