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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 265, 27 October 1877, Page 2

I ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. fFrom the Dunedin Saturday Advertiser. ] SPECIAL TELEGRAM. Lmnbton Kay, Wellington, October 18tb. B ego up. A weVe settled down to work at Just, and ivcrylhing is as right as a thrivet. Did ye read our fineanshial statement ? MesiJJ; an’ Sir George dhrevv it up betune us. I gave him the binifit o’ me grate experience in polyticks, for av course ye’re aware that 1 made that. branch o’ edye.ashuii me partikular study. WeVe promised grate things intirely. We’re going to do mightv grand things i£ they’ll only lave, us alone for a little time. Sir George laid' on the soft sawdher purty thick I can tell ye in his-address. Bad luck to the word Sie sed about pikes, an’ muskets, aiP. blundherbusscs, and Provinshal rights, an’ the curses o’ Aholishun. Be-gog ther’s nothin’ softens a man’s timper down like the sweets of office. No matteer_ what radicals we are whin we’re out in the could,, as soon as we dbrop into the Governvnint chairs we become torys, Och it’s a quare world, so it is, an’ as our National bard, Tom Moore; ses, “ All the world’s a teyathur, an’ all the. boys and girls jist play-acthor.%” “Av coorse ye’ve heard o’ the ould proverb—- " VVhiii the divil was sick - JTe ,I’vl .- saint would be,