WELLINGTON.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2243, 15 July 1870, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(from our .special correspondent.)

Bth July.

Your readers will doubtless be anxious to hear how your new members, Brown and M‘lndoc are acquitting themselves. The mernorabi ia relating to the former arc so interesting that I shall devote the remainder of this letter to detail them. Referring to Hansard, you will see that on his very first appearance he contradicted the Hon. the Colonial Treasurer as a matter of fact. The House was amused. Mr Reynolds and Mr Macandrew both contradicted Mr Brown. The House was puzzled. Here were three members of the same Council assur ing that pUiother spoke what was not —according to Sacts. To the intense amusement of the House, the hon. member at a later stage apologised, but his apology was rather dubiously received. But the next “ act "’ was ranch more entertaining. I did not happen to be in the House at the time, but I heard of it soon after. Indeed Wellington yet rings with it, the hon. member awaking next morning found himself famous. As 1 am scrupulously anxious not to mislead your readers I quote from one of the organs of the party to which Mr Brown has attached himS'df, i.e., Hie Opposition, called the Daily Adrertlser end Wellington Register (this paper itself has since did!) “The House was seized with an uncontrollable fit of hilarity yeste/day afternoon, on the relation by Mr Brown, the new member for Bruce, of the mystic horrors ho had been told he would have to face if he or any other private member had the audacity to present a Bill to the House. Mr Biowu, in a very verdant manner, and with a face as serious as a donkey’s baby, related how Mr Main, the member for Port Chalmers, had in confidence assur d him that he knew a young member wbo introduced a Bill to tbo House, a- tl with great difficulty obtained for it a first reading By the time it reached the second reading the obstacles had multiplied. and his case was one of perplexity and distress ; hut he managed to save it from the abyss of rejection, and it was read a second time. This somewhat recruited the member’s shattered organisation, and presently the Bill came up for its third reading. It was thrown out, and the result was (Mr Brown worked up to the culminating point of agitation)—the member died ! This was too much. The House released itself from the restraints of decorum, and risibility reigned around, Mr Brown wondering what there could be to laugh at in such a calamitous circumstance.”

But, another “act” of this political comedy remans. While the Public Petitions Committee were in conclave over a vorv difficult case, Mr Brown, without knocking at the door of the committee room, presentol himself before the committee wb ; lo 'ho chairman was putting the question, and began to discuss Mr Green’s case. Ho was severely reverely reprimanded for bis intrusion by the chairman (Mr C. Wilson, of Ghoorka notoriety), and asked to leave tbo room. Not satisfied with this sudden extrusion, he brought the matter up in the afternoon as a question of privilege; and after the matter had been explained to the Acting-Speaker, the hen. member bad to resume his seat with disgust and moitification so plainly written on his face, that members could scarcely again refrain from laughing at the “ knight of the sorrowful countenance.” It is a tbousnn' pith's that Mr Brown seems to be a devoted follower of Mr Hangbfon, for he has neither the perception of the ridiculous nor the mns’ory of finesse, for which the latter is so distinguished to carry bis folly off. There are fagots and fagots as the French say; and Otago can boast of two representatives in tbo House, each unapproachable in his rote —the one the fool natural, the other the fool professional.