GOLDFIELDS MEMBERS

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

GOLDFIELDS MEMBERS

The action nf the Golilfields members is being ket-nly criticised by the miners, and the conclusions drawn are anything but. fluttering to our representatives, some' of whom, in the event of a dissolution, may find their seats rather too hot for-them. It may suit our representatives to allow their personal feelings to so outweigh their sense of public duty, <?g to cause them to throw ♦out' the«Ooldficlds Bill without taking a single clause into consideration—merely because the Bill was intioduced by Mr. T. L. Shepherd ; but the miners fail to see the point of the joke. By the action of the Gnjdfields members, legislation for the Goldfields has been postponed for another year," when doubiless another Bill will be framed, and (if the miners again consent to be humbugged) another mining conference held, and after sending in an elaborate report, the who'e affair will terminate with • the. usual [barren results. The

Wellington Management will have pleasure in announcing the revival of. the notor- - ioug farce of the •' Goldfields Bill,'' which

was .received .last season with bursts ; of Jaughter; the performance to conclude with the laughable extravaganza, entitled, ''The. Circulation-of'"Another Bill!" N.B. —"ln consequence- of the flourishing' state of the "Exchequer, the audience will be paid for- their -attendance." However, it is a precarious game; and if the. Gold fields members continue to put their Bills in circulation without attempting to meet any of them, the result will probably be political bankruptcy and a compulsory, sequestration, of their, estates. Whatever ■' faults.

Mr. T. T/. Shepherd may possess, he has manfully fought the miners', battle; and his action during the present session affords! a , favorable contrast •io that of the other Goldfields members, whose professions.and practice are so much at variance as to irresistibly remind one of the once popular lines:— " .

" That slio still loves me fondly, she vows and declares: ". Unt .why, tell mo tv-liy, did she kick hie down stairs?" ,■•:'- —'Timp'ekn Times,'