The Government pro posed also to appoint as Councillors women of this colony.—(Applause, and wies of "Oh.") He argued that a Master and Apprentice Act was necessary, so that every employer «hould be required to pay whom he took as an appren tice and to be bound under contract to teach a' trade to an apprentic.—(Applause.) Knowing that there were 500 boys and girls who were to-day not receiving a penny piece from their cTOpYoyets, and -who -were not being t&ugnt any trade, tha Government drsired <to appeal to the common sense of the people and to ask them to return to Parliament men who would support them even in that "socialistic" legislation.— (Applause.) Kegarding the Industrial Con ciliation and Arbitration Act, he claimed that New Zealand had set the world an example, and he asked if the ptrty and Government who had placed that Act on the Statute Hook were ttf bte turned oUt.-(Cries of "No.") He ex tolled the money sehemc, and declared tha't the people of the colony would yet demand , that a Usury A6t be placed on the Stattfte Book. The sptaker ne>it quoted the opmion of Cup tain KusacU on the Chinese as recorded tn ' Hansard,' and said that of course anything tba't Would tend to cheapen labor Captain Russell and his class appreciated. It had been said that he (Mr Seddon) had opposed the limitation of Chinese, but that statement \vas contrary to fact, as was proved by the consistent support he had given to legislation restricting Chinese immigration amd the persistence he had shown in bringing measures up and in pressing them on the Legislature. It was also said that he had no,t desired the female franchise. The fact was that though he did not approve of Sir John Hall's Bill he had refrained from voting against it, and when he became leader of the Liberal party he had fought the measure through the House, and when some not far from Dunedin who had openly supported the Bill begged him to strangle "the little brute" he had resolutely declined to deviate from the course he had marked out. 