Friday Night.—Seems, after all, Mellor quite right in his ruling yesterday. Point was that, on supplementary Estimate, you may not debate questions of policy settled when original vote agreed to. Prince Arthur denounced this as absolutely novel principle. Chamberlain kept game up from other side, and for full hour conviction borne in upon new Chairman that life not worth living. Speaker, appealed to to-day, declares Mellor to have been in the right. Report of Select Committee on Estimates. Procedure cited to show Courtney categorically laid down the principle challenged, and systematically acted upon it.
Irish National Football Match.
"Yes," said Squire of Malwood, reflectively stroking his chin, "and Courtney might have got up and said so last night. Only his fatal bashfulness, his irreclaimably retiring disposition, could have kept him silent in such circumstances. True, his interposition would have spoiled the little game of his friends. It would not have been War, but it would have been Magnanimous."
Business done.—Albert Rollit, and Ex-Lord Mayor Whitehead, carry Resolution declaring Revised Railway Rates prejudicial to commercial interests of country.