Parliamentary Itmes.

Manawatu Herald, 2 August 1892, Page 3

Parliamentary Itmes.

MrMeredith'B speech was delivered io fl btae Hpuj?e on Thursday morning, bwV^Hose Who yere there tad a rion ; e^erie'ricei ' Mr . MeredUli's style is'pedagogic, poinpoiis, not to Bay^pqjaderolis, ,md full.' pf dire Bole&njiijv : .Afjtei" every few words there was a solemn pauses to give amjJhasis and rhetorical effeofc,. but this often, pl'bduoed an effect not, inte^^di^ttf9 3 &^a.wr , ( apd : Jletf ' to a certain amoiint of ambiguity and misapprehension. Thus :- " I once ► knew #^i4037v-(V : ph's," during the pause^ «»*•'' in:, Cnristchuroh "—-(another pftiMe'an^ Prolonged "Oh's" — ''she * M&. several children"-— (more " OE's^this tine in a shocked tone)—" in hdr husband's absence" — (Wfi&s6ny'Vn'd exclamations of horror and shocked surprise, followed by 'Mfß' b*rMg^tef)-" in the v abBenW ; of ;hef'Jjasband, sir "— (more " OT!*^," in every inflection of horror) " B^Si«^^ <"■s% t r « a d wm oer of the fanyjx": i! 3CftW menibars discovered thaWAbiß^twaa. not a biographical fragment, but a prelude to a prosaic illustration of the Property Tax. * Mr Meredith says the Leader of the Oppositian on the Financial Statement "reminded him of ' Archie Wee*d^r- V A Voice, " Who is Archie Mee9b^')--who would have moved the world.with his lever if he oould have found J a fulcrum, but the 'Archie Meeds.' of the Opposition could notfind a fulcrum of error, and so the Statement wa« not moved." "Archie Meeds ," (by which the hon. member is understood to have meant an ancient named Archimedes) became^a catchword for the test of

1 . (Press) No man in the House is less given • to exaggeration than the Hon Mr Mitchelson ; his temperament is equability itself. When, therefore fore, such a man tpeaks about civil servants looking like hunted rats, and says that he himself never meet 3 one of those public officers without being afraid to speak to him — lest 1 his doing so should compromise or prejudice the officer with the powers that be— it is fair to conclude that something like a reign. of terror has been set up within the ranks of the service by the Government. If this is a fact, the fact is a- disgrace to the country.