A Lively Debate.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 253, 22 September 1884, Page 2

A Lively Debate.

The "Parliamentary correspondent of the Tiraaru Htrald referring to the debate on Sir George Grey's Law Practitioners Bill, says : — -Sir George Grey rose to reply shortly before two m the morning, and his speech was one of the finest he ever delivered. He bantered the Hon. 'Mr Stout most unmercifully al>out his schoolmaster's ideas on great questions, and on the Hon. Mr Stoat interrupting him, lie turned fiercer upon him and \gave him the full force of his bitterest invectives for about a quarter of-aii-hour... He then took Mr Garrick m hand, and gave him his first experience of a thorough good dressingdown. He walked _close up to him. and shook the bill m his face just as if he were goingto ram it down his throat, and asked him how he dired to say it was untruthful and badly drawn, when he ought 19 have known that it -was' drawn verbati/n by one of the greatest American lawyers. His speech was lull of sallies of humor at satire, and towards the close he rose to a pitch of eloquence that kept the Iloux! perfectly breathless. Excepting that his manner was extraordinary theatrical his speech was one of th« most splendid efforts of oratory ever heard m the House. The Billwas rejected on the Hon. Mr Stout* motion by a majority of one, several of Sir George Grey's supporters having gone home without pairing, under the impression that no division would be takeu. that night, and feeling ran very high m consequence. It is said that Sir George Grey is seriously offended with the Hon. Mi Stout for his attacks on his bill, and his arrogant conduct towards himself, aud there w every likelihood of further hostilities later on. *