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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 287, 4 September 1874, Page 3

There'will be some among our (' JZeyrT~'~ j Zealand Times') readers, no doubt, who' will remember the well-known C. E. " Jones, a member of the Victorian Asserii- '" bly, and at one time Commissioner of JKailways. He was undoubtedly an abl* . man, but somewhat unscrupulous, and ultimately was expelled from the Parliament of-Victoria. He went to San Francisco, from thence to Utah, where he scjouvned for a while, passing on " thence to New York. It appears that he is engaged now as one of the exponents ol Bar-. nam's great show business, and is highly appreciated by the King of Charltans. An amusing incident which gave rke to a hearty laugh in the House took place the other night. Mr. Shepherd was making. a.speech, and.had occasion to refer to Mr. Filzherlert. He turned round and addressed " his',-'-' honorable friend," w}iD was sitting aloifc on the "back bench," bm "his hunorable no sign of reoa--nition, and. sat. on a moajjment sniilii g at grief perfect iinu:>:biiily of.face wasrimsistille.—' "Welllr--ton Tribune.%';?' ~ v ~-^ v ""