A Lively Spar.

Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1903, Page 2

A Lively Spar.

PARLIAMENTARY PERSONALITIES.

A feature of the long sitting of the House recently was a ieftly interchange of personalities between Mr T. E. Taylor and Mr T. Wilford. After several members bad made •tinging references to the Government’s action in wasting time, Mr Taylor rose, and forthwith fell foal ol the member for the Hutt. He congratulated the member for the Hutt on bis first action in the House after returning from the Old Country, being to play the pact of the party hack.

Mr Wilford: “ I would sooner be that than a rat."

Mr Taylor appealed to the Speaker whether the remark of the member for the Hutt was justified. The Speaker: “ The remark should not have been made."

Mr Wilford : appeal to the Speaker." (Voices: “ Withdraw! withdraw I") Mr Wilford said his friend on the left (Mr O’Meara) had suggested that he might say he did not refer to the member for Christchurch, but he would not sail under false colours. He did refer to the member for Christchurch, and he would with* dr»w.

Mr Taylor said rata frequented sowers. He did not know where the member (or the Hutt had been liuoe he left this country, but if thii waa the highest level of repartee beoould rise too, it waa perhaps a good thing that ho had come back to this country to get into a cleaner atmosphere. They knew exactly what the member for the Hutt waa. If acy thirdrate, fourth-rate, or fifth-rate, or any low business was to be done in Wellington—

Mr Wiiford and Mr Baume rose together to protest, and the Speaker •aid Mr Taylor muat withdraw the remark.

Mr Taylor; Sir, I withdraw the remark.”

Mr Wiiford rose to make a personal explanation. Hr Taylor: “ When I have finished the member for the Hutt will have to make two personal explanations. He had better wait till then.”

The Speaker said Mr Wiiford had no right to make personal explanations unless Mr Taylor gave way to him. ■

. Mr Wiiford; “I think he gives milk, not ‘whey.’” Mr Taylor then proceeded to refer to a bogus motion of the earlier part of the evening, and to the waste of time. He was frequenttepterrupted by Mr Wiiford, wws was asked by the Speaker not to interrupt, as it would only lead to further trouble.

Mr Wilford; •' The member for the Hutt has come back here with a coat-tail that stretches from here to the wharf.” And then the unedifying interlude came to an end.