HANSARD,

The following remarks were made m thellouse^y Mr Dodaonj'the nVemb'e'r '' for this district,' 'on!Mr : V;i Pyke\i motion " That Members shall defray the coat of reporting and printing their own speeches m and .that sucfycost Bhall.be. deducted, from the,., hondrarium;if any, to Which they are' entitled." Mr Dodao'n'said whatever insincerity there .was m this motion—^ and he could not help thinking that there was some insincerity m it— he was .sure there was none whatever m his honorable friend, the member for Olutha, whose speech was terribly m earnest. Ho would vota against this motion, because for many years past: he was not ashamed to say that he had been a constant reader of "Han sard." He thought ho had derived some instruction from' it ; and ha ' thought also that that publication was read more extensively m the colony than was generally supposed. He might perhaps be pardoned if he thought that the publication of " Han sard" for many years / past had ' had something to do with the influx of new members into the House. As for the amendment of the honorable member for Dunedin Central, it had a good deal to recommend it.' If it be true— as he thought; it was— that,membera were m the habit of 'speaking one speeoh m the House, and letting another, appear m " Hanßard," the country should at least not be put to the expense of the publicationof such corrections. Speak ing for himself, from what he had seen m the House and the speeches he had listened to duringlastfsession, the record the publication, and the reporting was simply surprising. It' was wonderfully correct, and he was sure no one could complain of the manner m which the speeches delivered m the House were reported m ". Hansard." He would say; the same also with regard to the honorable member for Clutha. The report of the " New Zealand Times," which they got at seven o'clock m th§ .morning, 1 of debates that took place at tenor eleven o'clock on the previous night, were exceedingly creditable to that paper, and to the gentleman who ' reported the debates, whoever he might be. -Fe. would [ aay. 