Mr Hogg, M.H.R., when in Masterton, has, of course, to do as the Mastortonians do. They are at present worshipping the champion belt won by their rifle marksman Hyde, and they drag the gentle craft into every banquet that crops up. The satirical Hogg had to get his little joke off about the popular subject, and so, t’other night, at a public dinner, ho remarked that, “ Parliamentary representatives sometimes did a bit of rifle shooting. At present, however, there was very little to ‘rifle,’for the Treasury chest was about empty.” As a specimen of Parliamentary facetiousness, we laugh with the Mastertonians, but, regarded as a chunk of cold fact —well, what about surpluases and remissions of taxation, and all that kind of thing ?—Free Lance.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 395, 21 April 1902, Page 3
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