PARLIAMENTARY JOKES.
The Southland News' Wellington correspondent writes :—" A couple of good stories are running round the lobbies. A member from the East Coast, Mr Macdonald, in the presence of a lot of people in the lobby, said to Mr Hurst, ' Have you seen that boy who was looking for you on urgent business?' Hurst, in great agitation, replied, ' No; what can he want with me V —' Oh, 5 replied Macdonald, 'be has that long expected portfolio under his arm.' That is number one. Then last night in the course of the debate, Mr Pitt asserted that the Liberals should iusist on women being allowed to vote. Seddon replied that the night the Grey Government were defeated he happened, immediately after the division had been taken to go into one of the lobbies, and there he saw a lady throw her arms round her husband's neck and exclaim rapturously' 'We have done them at last. 5 If, said Mr Seddon, this was a sample of what ladies would do in politics, he thought that the Liberals at least, would not have anything to do with giving them more power than thev at present possessed. It is stated that the lady alluded to was Mrs M'Lean. I hear it said that Sir George Grey will most likely address every centre of population during the recess."
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Kumara Times, Issue 974, 13 November 1879, Page 3
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