JOSEPH’S BODY GUARD.
.People sneer at Bmperora and Kings who n cd to be constantly surrounded by a bodyguard to protect them from the violence of their well-belcved subjects. Bat what can they say,' tro wonder, when they learnt what the Home Secretary stated the other day. that the Bouse of O immooi, the mother of Parliaments requires to be watched as zealously by as many ollcemen as a Sultan, a Cz»r, or Irian Viceroy. Daring the session, when the representatives of tie people assembled therr are constantly on duty H? 3 policemen in and about the Houses of Parliament. Of these there are three inspectors and eieht sergeants The cost would bn £17,000 per anum if the House sat all the year round. If the house took holiday for a year, the cost would be reduced to £9,400 On the whole, it may be said that the coat of safeguarding the People’s House against destruction at the hands of Dvnamitards and others is eqtti valent to an addition of a capital sum of i a quarter of a million to the original aosjt i pi the building* I
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1429, 10 December 1886, Page 2
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189JOSEPH’S BODY GUARD. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1429, 10 December 1886, Page 2
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