Humours of Parliament.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 15 August 1891, Page 2

Humours of Parliament.

The/cleyer/writerjef in the N.Z. Tims^c^s refers lojofye or two incidents m last ,W«dpepday, r a proceedings. ... ;; , IDhS^Ma^doqaW p^akes ifiercfi reply, he knows as mucn about'tn'e'Ta^ds of this polony.? as^ ]^r^rapa, ,-he has studied this'tning^he t .'wilf'TiQt ha put down. Ciu^ ;^s.>y f sniJt a m him, and "V^aira^apa'leaWs {he Maodppald. Ijq him'fdr the present. . . ypioe goes pa reading. '• J63epli"Gfa'vi£e, f^jbcfO acifes^viftite £73,000, improvements, £12,000." ', J'iY^u ?an't i%pifo,x c p%4 l^n ; d,!' says Clutha... The isn't partteujaxt ; he is japing. to/^eji£ him everything he has. on nis paper. " Hf re they- avej£ siv.Clifford and Wcldi /;We ill. mdv t^jjj^qp^ty —wonderful pi«pfirtgtf'~Ti»s.j $P voice gets rounder and. richer and ■ higher , — ".maryejlpus., .property ; '66;O0Q .acres/ va)ae '^tS^qO!!):' ib> proVemehis, iVi ' r ' f . . t TUe r Macdon^ld.i3 mych struck v^itU'^ ißas^Lihg wyw ifc.*ujTlrrf e^Uouqand fivx^nndr]eot-ra beggarly sum for We imprdve'mßnft^-on a property valued at. £185,000. 7 T^b rqpeal^, the i p^'uiiihired^Wd thirty-jfiye . } t^onsaii3V.. \ IJhat ijmL pypperty — qne i^uadrid'".^^^!^!^^*^ five thousand, pbunds— *". r /'V " '" Going,", s^quts^uiija, *^ith- ;;i twinkle of inalioe in nis jy^ipe.. .'Th6 effect jis eiecljrip. Thf ftousf xfiati* * and there is a..rounct ofapplaTis^'"^ The Macdonald recovers' hitiiseKi laughs with, the res/i.ftndjtljefl^sJciOjU't'a , that he only wishes %sei ;^ps^liee^ : were not/phfygoinig but gone.

'*~AfTer. Jibi ;: ffiTw; 0/ Smi^teila theHbuseihat wheri) ho lives he is " surrounded by absentees," and receives a 'round of tfppianse from the laughing' House. •

Meredith says ho is not^surt^^outfded. 'by- absentees ; neither does he wftjit tn*is qoontry to be occupied Iby t4i|e^eoßr The House laughs agauj, .&n6. iafter Mr Meredith has made* vigorous onslaught on the absentees, -goes off to supp 1 r. r-A&Ab- goes the : words ere iffioftr e^f^'^Tbertt are absentees and nhi been mucji uiJCTnmf iffg .the evquing, . and, ;they ocK^tb^'wbro'le grpunic)^ ; -