NOTES FROM THE GALLERY.
[by AN OBSERVEE.]
All the time I was in the gallery on Monday night when the Council were in Committee on the Executive Government Bill, I was thanking my stars that I was not a reporter for I shouldn't have known one bit how to take down all that was said. There was a tremendous chatter the .whole time and as it was quite impossible to fix my attention on what was being said, I amused myself with trying to calculate how much was talked. The Bill had 24 clauses, to each clause, on an average, two amendments were proposed, andj on each amendment each of the seventeen members must, at the lowest computation, have spoken at least three times. Put mathematically then it stands thus : —
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 130, 4 June 1870, Page 2
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130NOTES FROM THE GALLERY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 130, 4 June 1870, Page 2
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