Parliamentary "Amenities"

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 62, 4 November 1884, Page 2

Parliamentary " Amenities "

♦ — Mr Wakefield can - become warm when submitted to the lash of sarcasm which he is so fond of applying to others. We learn from " Notes from, the Gallery," published in the Post: — The Colonial Treasurer remarked, sarcastically, that he supposed Mr Wakefield had used the word "we" just now in his speech, when telling the House " that ' we ' should do this or 'we' should do that," in an editorial sense. The Government looked upon Major Atkinson as the leader of the Opposition, and not Mr Wakefield. Arrangements would be made during the recess towards securing the railways in question upon the best terms,

and the Government would do so on their own responsibility. Mr Wakefield rose to say that he would warn the Treasurer that if he mado any i further personal attacks upon him which he, Mr Wakefield, would not tolerate outside of the House, he, the Treasurer, would place himself in a very dangerous position indeed. The , Speaker having called Mr Wakefield to order, Sir Julius Vogsl said that the tone of Mr Wakefield's speech | was becoming of so " representative " ! a character, that it warranted him, he ! . thought, in characterising it as he '• had done. He, Sir Julius Vogsl, had been a member of the Press for many years of his life, and he knew what was due to tho dignity of true journalism.