Work after work was enumerated, and presently the Waimea. railway, £45,000, was mentioned. The wits of the House turned upon Mr Kerr an indignant and, in view of his recent protestations, an inquiring gaze, whilst those nearest the unfortunate member, .in termß audible in tfie gallery, stigmatised such conduct Mhe was guilty of as contemptible. Lashed in a moment into a small fury, protesting that the return quoted was not correct, Mr Kerr rose from his seat, walked, across the floor of tho House to where Mr Marchant stood, and with tho words "Here, let's have a look at that thing," held out his hand for the return, which after carefully scanning for a moment or two he gleefully returned to the member for Taranaki with the words " Yah, that's not my Waimea," and stalked back to his seat, amidst the shrieks of the House. TRIENNIAL LICENSING BILL. In committee this evening on the Triennial Licensing Committees Bill and Bight Hours Bill the fun has been fast and furious, and it is not too much to say that for two hours the chamber presented a scene more worthy of some convivial gathering of small intellectual preten sions than tho legislative chamber of a country. In the firstnamed bill Mr Monk desired to add a new clause extending the franchise to " ladies, that is women; I mean females, Sir," and that faltering amendment having been lost, Mr Goldie proposed to insert a new clause extending the franchise to all males and females over the ago of 21. Oa this a point of order was raised that so far as part of the amendment was con cerned it had already been decided by vote ust given. Mr R. Reeves naively remarked that he thought it quite legitimate to propose, as in the terms of the amendment, that males and females should bi? coupled together, but tho chairman ruled that half of tho amendment had been disposed of by a previous vote. 