THE HON. RICHARD OLLIVER.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 65, 25 August 1880, Page 2

THE HON. RICHARD OLLIVER.

It is an astonishing study as to what kind of men the Continuous Ministry Bm enlisted into its ranks. Perhaps the present -Minister for Public Works is thr most ourious specimen m the whole variety of th«;sp#cies. When you look at him, h» reminds you of a Yankee clock' pedlar, prone to dispense patent medicines. When you hear him speak, yon are compelled , to compare him to a village schoolmaster. The patronising and supercilious manner m which he gives information to such men »s Macandrew and Richardson is on* of the lieuest treats the House affords. When Q« dilates "on things m geaeral,", after/ th» mariner of Sir William Pox, he informs, tha House.tbat he has gone back to first pririciciples ; land when' he has made the announceraeiit, a gleam ,of satisfaction illumes his co untenance, which seems to shine as though, anointed with oil; He evidently possesses' «m« streak of humor, for. he simpers— bat rarely laughs.' 'He is not a' man to laugh. wlbh, .but at. Heseekis tobeonly half di-essed unless be has a carpet bag m hi« hand, or t a y,a)!sse.. Some men are born to this, habifc— developed; adapted to^their envii.'pnineuts. .Np pei'son r whp ever asks him a cfriestibri; expects an answer conveying an j fnfoi'mation, because beyond the pwoe of, and t ",t_b c profit onss pade, . he . cannot reach. Sim conceit h cbmtuensui-ate with liis iii}-» bicility. 1 Imagine 1 a ' petjy I'irdhmonget frlk'ng about "minion* of- the Pre*a cbirii Emitting- petty laroeny." Of course, Johtt Snowies will keep him as near straight with the cbalk-li-oe of official decovam as possible, and as Atkinson' will only give him money to spend upon approval, antiuucler direction bo great Ijartri oari result f com his holding a po-tfolib, it being something h>ndy for him, to catvTt— Chronicle. f '" ' =.- ■••!