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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 261, 2 October 1875, Page 4

. Mr Reader Wood was speaking in the House of Representatives last night, in that lugubriously cheerful style which is his wont. Said one reporter in the gallery to another, '* I never knew that Wordsworth had that chap in his eye when he was writing poetry." Replied the other, "You're talking nonsense." Said tbe first, "Not at all; doesn't Wordsworth, ia his s Tinfcern Abbey,' speak of 'the deep and gloomy wood?'" But this is not this only quotation, it is aaid, that was made yesterday. A member was sitting in the library reading Shakespeare. The limited literary* tastes of members will narrow down guesses at this one to a very select few. .Whilst be was reading, another member entered from tbe House; and said, *< The Speaker, is arguing a technical point with Murray, and no one knows when he'llstop." Said the Sbakesperiab student, " I am just, at the line in * Othello,' « Silence that dreadful Bell.' " —N.Z. Times. The Canterbury Press, referring to the recent municipal elections in Ohristohurch makes the following remarks which are of general aoplication :— " We are all of us fully sensible of the real value of municipal institutions, and, by consequence, of the essential service rendered to us by those who undertake their working. And practically we believe it is always the case that, upon any great public emergency, the electors wiil see tbe necessity of choosing a higher class of men than usuai, and that among the higher class of men there will be found those who are ready to respond the call. When Christchurch was first created a municipality, Mr John Hall thought it not unworthy of his well-won public position to accept the offioe ,of Chairman, and to devote a very considerable portion oi bis time and energy to setting the new machinery fairly to work. The present occasion is probably greater than any that haa previously happened or is likely again to occur. In the very crisis of the Abolition question, it is more than all things important that tbe municipalities should be in the charge of men who are not only exactly informed as to the real claims of their respective localities, but possessed of weight enough to give full effect to any representations that it may be necessary to make respecting tbem before the General Assembly. We are not now speaking merely of money. .We are of those who believe that our municipal system is as yet only at its commencement.