NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

AIR. lIF.RDMAN I!ECHIY.ES A P REN PLY WARNING. “The whole country should rise in rebellion,” Icjhdlw declared the Alt-iiey-Geiiera! in the House in speaking

agifiust prohibition agiLnLors. Such a statement coming from such a person with such aspirations naturally caused a chorus of shocked ‘‘Ohs!’ to arise from members. Air. I*. C‘. Webb remarked that he had received three months for a much milder statement Maturer consideration of .this utterance evidently made- Mr. A\cbl> charitable U(: when he spoke later in the evening he earnestly exhorted members not to encourage Mr. Herdman lo make more intemperate remarks, other wise the Minister would surely go in gaol within six months. PICTURESQUE PHRASEOLOGY. Some picturesque but rather vague and mixed utterances were made liv a. speaker in the House of Representatives. At one stage he referred to the recent activities of the 6 o’eloekers as “tawdry lizzie which had its preamble on .Sunday night and its march past on Tuesday.” Again the same speaker said the agitation was “more than a frothy parrot-cry —it was a vicious side issue. i HIGHLY RESPECTABLE. j “Some of these girls arc more respect able than anyone else and some more so.” —A member in the House, in making plea for the barmaids, in connection with the Liquor Rill.