NEW ZEALAND.

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.

First and Second Sessions, Thirteenth Parliament.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Volumes.

COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM

APRIL 6 TO OCTOBER 19, 1897.

WELLINGTON.

BY AUTHORITY: JOHN MACKAY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER.

1897.

NEW ZEALAND.

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.

First Session of the Thirteenth Parliament.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Ninety-seventh Volume.

COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM

APRIL 6 TO APRIL 10, 1897.

WELLINGTON.

BY AUTHORITY: JOHN MACKAY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER.

1897.