He did not know of any Govern menb which could claim thnt bhey had ac complished so much work, had done so much legislation in so short a time. In respect of legislation bhoy were ahead of any other part of the British Empire. There was still more to do, howoyor. Tho Employers Liability Bill was won last year, i but at the last session ib was considerably amended to make it moro easy for workmen who had been injured to recover damages, or to the families to recover compensation for the loss of the breadwinner Various unfair and hampering restrictions to the right of action had been removed. Tho position of apprentice had also been t&Mta '^uch .etter than ifc was before. In lho case of rotten machinery which was aub-let, the family of a workman injured now had redress. There was ono clause in the Acb to which be would

refer on account of - the very mistaken cribiciems levelled againsb ib. Ib was the clause which gave the righb to a workman to claim redress from a fellow workman through whoso negligence he had been in j jured. In the present caso they looked to tho employer for redress. If a man was employed now, and was injured by ono of the workmen, he could nob recover any thing from the man. Now, it a man were working along with others ab the same place and was hurt, the injured man could not re cover damages from the obher men em ployed, lb waa vory complicated. The English House of Lords had decided this question before ib was broughb up in New Zoaland, and yeb their opponents had imagined thab such a thing had never been hoard of before, and actually said that the dictum was an example of American socialism. Such were the charges broughb againsb bhe Liberal Minisbry. He then re-' ferted bo THE TRUCK ACT which had beon passed lasb year. When ib camo up before Parliament bhe Opposition said ib would lead to a dead lock be tween the mon and the employers. The Bill was carefully thoughb over, and carefully amended, and eeveral alterations wero made to meet their vie ws, bub even then : they said tho Bill would bo a failure. But nob ono of thor predictions had yeb been fulfilled. Ib provided bhab when a man. 