CAPTAIN MACKENZIE, M.H.R.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1074, 24 November 1882, Page 3

CAPTAIN MACKENZIE, M.H.R.

The following character sketch bv Konene” in the Auckland F eemv's, J’.unvl is to good to ho lost:— S nth'nnd wanted -mother representative than Ca - <- tain M’K»nzie. The Thames people used to he “ s'Hfily beggars.” but the member for Matama has found out. a more excellent way. He says what he wan’s a-id get p or the promise thereof—which he imv find quite a different thing, lie is a favorite in the fopse ; I ked by all except the member for Wnkatipn, He assumes no airs ; he has no neeil to do an. A quiet, unpretentious man who has gathered gear. Plain and simple in speech, and easy to he understood. Kot given to metaphor, nor a puristic language. Choleric at limes, and at sneh seasons full of stiangc oitha ; bearde 1 like the 1 ard; sudden and quick in quarre’;although with fair round belly, with mutton lined. Bitter at gibe, as wh»n he called feigns “ The Government Lnmner.” Fund of good living, as evidenced hv his denunciations of the cookery and feeding at Bellamy’s. Practical in mind, as in telling the House that onr proceedings from the commencement with the Maori race were unjust, and that we must continue to he in j ist still. A" we could not retrace, neither could we emend onr ste- s. A man of definite oj i nions. which he calls principles. His views a-e all comidete. He does not hover about the border land of conviction. He understands no middle course. Surmises and ' nesses have no place in his brain. All bis ideas are lal-eU d, and all that is required to know what they are like is to call for them by name. In pe r on short and stout, with a seafaring.gai*. Kot given to broadcloth or d css c’nthing. A wearer r f slouch hats and °cotfish twn"n. A ruminating animal in the morning, thinking over what he dirl and said overnight. Such an one is Captain M ‘K-i zic.