SPARKS FROM THE LEGISLATIVE ANVIL.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 52, 30 June 1880, Page 2

SPARKS FROM THE LEGISLATIVE ANVIL.

Instruct 'the ignorant ; to tliose that live ' Under thy care, good rules and patterns give.

: Fikanoiai. IiE&EBDEStAjnr. -^- Said: MrV G-isborne, M th* Tr easurar borrows with one ,hand : and taxes, with the bthiir, talcing care iiot fco le| ivis left: hand 'know what hisjrighb harid ; is doing." ' ■ ' = / : .-,. GrOTBR^MENTi PEOTEflES.— Mr,:Turnbull said the "children of r New Zealand > wer*rocked m a &overninent cradle ; educated m » Government school; 1 provided foj 1 m Government offices ; and finally, buried^ m Government, coffins.: ;.. A. Pibty Authority/.— "Speaking with regard to the Wairaate swam.i>,' Mr, Sey- . mourthbu'ght 't}iat;pnji.he question of; mud, the member fpr E.angitikei, Sir William _Fqx, was a good judge of ft", as., he th"8 T w more of tli e filtk . than any bthe?. ixfember m the 'House. •• ... •, f_ The Stuef ov which Natiyb , Commissioners xbe Bein& Made.— l «ay i^ i» a.vei^f >vrong thing,' ayery t foblisli thingto mak« Native Ooramissioners of old traders m the plac«^— men who sold to the NatiTßi tin-pots, Jew*' -harps, Hollo way's ointment,: and things of that kind m days gon»; by . — ■Soh. Mr: Scotland. , :^" ;;i i : "j* Pick me up." — Mr. Montgomery said the colony had been - drunk with prosperity, and haying awakened witbJa siok head-ablie, the remedy appeared to be m the, language of the Wellington cheuiists, ." a pick-meup;" m the shape of retrenchment, 7 ■Rough on oub LegisiiAtoes. i— Mr. Hurs.thous« had heard hon. member* grumbling ibout the soiip at Bellamy's, and every other course supplied to them at that tabli,' but many' of, these members, he had reason to believe, fared sumptuously during tHe sespion, and lived upon breasts of mutton, during the remainder of Jbhciyfar^ ''---' Th« Deoeased Wipe's Sisteb!— fColonel Brett referred to the measur* for providing for the deceased wife's husband as an m? delicate mot ion-^an obscene mtasure, which would be looked upon by every female wita ■ horror and abomination. -Dr. Pollen, however, held different views, and said th* old world prejudices about marriage were fait disappearing, and probably they would soon see a proposal to legalise marriage with a man's jnotb«r-in-liw. fr ■ ' "AirOTHBB. PIiUCK AT HIS GbET HAIBa.— = fWhenJthey took a; firstrclass passage m an: ordinary^ coasting steamer every person was treateid ;'bhe i*uie, hut iuiclging from the four brfive voyages he^had mad* m the Hir»e-: mo^, there was reason to complain of the the way m which thiags were done. . He found that all; the old; venerable, and sickly people who came by the Hinemoa to Parliament, vr*re always put down below, and as near the keel possible ; while all the young and healthy members got the state pabins.— Dr.- WalUs on his private grievances, . ' The AuakiAwi) JuDA.s.^Tlie following is ihe very neat way m, which Mr, Q;i»borne eummed np Mr. Beacier Wood^ -After a most scathing castigation oil" poiutedly referring 7 to the Auckland Judas, he concluded : " Frailty, thy name is—. Mr. Speaker, the forms of the House forbid me to mention any honimeoaber by name, but——" The; hiatus was filled up by one of the Opposition — amidst the laqghter of the whole House— intersecting f"Beader : Wood,"- and the point was gained. \ ; The MobBHOUSK MEMOBrAii— Dr. Pollen suggest«d that instead of the railway tiokefc, the - natura of "v'fche testi monial h,e, changeid, and the ex-Superintendent be presented with a tickejb It might not ioiind so well, but: certainly would be of far more use. Mr.? Buckley ridiculed the Billi which i ef erred . to s the. "eldtest heir." ; He'cpnfessed lie had never heard of the youngest heir before. Mr. Mantel suggested that m case the railways ifere parted with by the State, it would be necessaryrtp follow the J ( apanes*. practice,, and provid* Mxs Moorhousa 'with 'an everlasting wheelbai'rbw." ";• - • • ' ■■■■•■■ Mb. Ptee-^d TH«;ilAiiwAX^Oommissioite'bs.—ln -one day i they, itrayelled 73^ miles m a. olosecarriage to. inspect the land." Expecting thAt^thßy might hay* ;to starve there, they bi-ought • six "bottles .of porter and a lot of sandwiones with them. Th*y. went up to, the terraoe, four miles, from Luke Wanakft, and cafeped under a rook there, which, ia hob -kaown,;^ j--Wid

from this rock they gazed across -the iCttuthfc —their Janfan— gaz«d at . th» prom Me* land on the other aide— 2o milep off> they left a monument of broken bottles, returned to Oroniwelli flew, through, Clyde m the-dark, and then kitew all about }t. Next morning early they woke up, and sent one of their number toleok at the kintl of house I lived in^ He looked at it, f believe, through the. hedge ; and then they; started away, almost before the sun rose, Qf the whole 70 miles of my county; through which the line passes, I venture; -tp.-'WJ *tey did.not see six- miles. Is theiiC. opinion worth anything ■?,/ Will they have, the audacity to appreve, or the still gtgateu. audacity to disapprove, of the line of'rail-, way, there ? . There opinion it worthless, and cannot be received by this Home ex.* s.«pt v^ith' great dissatisfaction. v °