NEW BLOOD IN PARLIAMENT.
[From the " New Zealand Sun."] Who has not heard of "the. Reverend Dr. Wallis, of Auckland, arui M.H.R. for that city. v'TMs; is : how/: that able gentleman is summed up by an, eyewitness' who 1 cbrresponds for a Southern paper ' :~V-' Dr. Wallis made his maiden osp^ech, andjitJWias a terror., THe is-a. <3il-,apidatjed_lqblgng,^^Ht»-hairedoldman, dressed m- faded clerical cpstumeV and when he stood up to speak he brought strikingly to mind the portraits of ;Lprd Macaulay m hi_ la_er days. ButJ his speech ! /For ferocious he beat's Mr Rees "" by chalKs,'' while, as regards styled he-e^dently thought he was still m his i chapel] atiAtickland^ *No member probjably. has ever inspired the House^with so much fear>for theirfu.,ture;happihess; 'The' Doctor's accent is a .rich \mu_tur_ ~p pf ;.Scotch and Irish, vvhich reaches its climax when he quotes Latin. - Thus, his pronunciation of the. trite phrase, Requiescat m pace, De Mortms ml.m&i bonum, is as nearly as possible like this z-f-Rayqidezattinpar-■see, AtiayiMorrdooizy kneel kheezy bon~ noomJ' • 7 77,,. -y v - A--'
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 1 September 1877, Page 3
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172NEW BLOOD IN PARLIAMENT. Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 1 September 1877, Page 3
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