POLITICAL NOTES.

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 105, 15 August 1902, Page 4

POLITICAL NOTES.

' 9!i “ d this, session T will pyt the • honor|y?oi bottles, .of ginger retort to an interjection byr Mr Atkinsoil, NecdiesSj to say the* sally was "greeted rpaVp^laugliter., A a arjd I wi,i a.ns\yer lt ip my own with all _due deference io the borijor'able gentle- ‘ A J sum rtly spoken retort bv the J Acting-Preinief " tT’-'t-he-' member for ' RTtcai't. > v ‘ 'j Ui \ji this talk about the dear old M the land should be ‘the dear old nnbf • land’—the uncle with the three ‘balls.”- -Mr J. Hutcheson. U I believe there was a good deal of wine' at tlie "Cape when the Great Panjandrum ’ of New' Zealand, Mr Seddon, Was there.” observed Mr Monk. 1 “ There’s much whine about y^fi 1 t'l-nigbt,” promptly came from Mr O’Meaia. During toe discussion oh the Estimates, several speakeis dealt with ‘the cable messages sent from* South Africa arid England by Mr Seddon, but Mr Fisher, who came in just before ' the- 'House adj lurried, had the last word. ‘‘Sir,” he said, addressing the chairman, “it was irritating to the senses to read those telegrams, but it is more iiritating to think that the ratepayerr of the Colony have to pay fo 4 such slush.” Mr Hutcheson—-“The constituencies are Iran drunk—-very one ot them.” Mr J. Allen—‘‘Then it is out* duty to tell them they are loan drunk and that the country is‘buoyed up with the bu »aiicv due fc» the expenditure of b >rrowe<l iiioney—a policy that must if persisted in lead to disaster.