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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 231, 29 September 1877, Page 2

The Speaker of the Victorian Assembly keeps hon. members well in hand, but not so the Chairman of Committees. Under the ruling of Mr James, hon. members are allowed to banter each other to any extent they choose. Mr Purves -was in a lively mpod 01 a recent evening, and took Mr Munpo under his care, with the result that he soon had the member for Carlton on his legs. Mr PurVe3said something about " bad bookkeeping." ?' The" hon-. donkey from Mornington is alluding to a society I am interested in again," said Mr Munro. " The financ'al relations be knows most of are those of Judas Iscariot." Time was, says the Melbourne Argus, when such a phrase as *- honorable donkey " would have beeu vetoed at once, but- the chairman is silent aud complacent, no matter what is said.

Presuming that the gentleman who made the following sweepiug condemnation spoke from what he knew, Blenheim must be pitied. At a meeting of Roman Catholics to discuss the Education Bill, a Mr Eccles is reported in fche local Express to have said: — "School Committees were chosen like juries and parsons in England,' they chose the biggest donkeys. The class of men chosen were nofc men of intelligence, and the Country Committees were generally composed of the worst educated men iu the colony." Mr Wakefield, M H.R., received a telegram on Saturday afternnon from Waimate informing him that he had been hung and burnt in e figy there, in consequence of certain action he had taken regarding the local Resident Magistrate's Court. The hon member, however, took very little heed of this outburst of indignation on the part of the residents in that district, and immediately wired back a message in the following terms:—" Glad to hear it; hope they liked it,* what was the matter with them ? " It is proposed to erect a monument to the memory of the late Sir Donald McLean. The movemeut is being initiated among the Highlanders of Hawke's Bay, who are iuvited to meet at Kaikora on the 17fch prox. The invitation is in Gaelic. The followiug is a translation of it, rendered as nearly like the original as it ia possible to trauslate iuto English the fervid and poetic laugiiage of the Gaelic-.—" To the Highlanders of Hawke's Bay.— By the death of our fellow-country-man, Sir Donald McLean, New Zealand has lost a great and good man. To commemorate his many virtues it is meet that a monuraeufc be erected; and ifc having been suggested to us that the "initiatory steps in this matter should be taken by you, we now iuvite as many of you as can make it convenient to meet us in the old school-house, Kaikora, on Wednesday the 17th October next, at noon."