Exclusion of Ladies from the House of Commons. —A bill being under discussion which greatly affected the interests of a noble family of extensive connection, the galleries Avere daily crowded with the female relatives of the party, most of them, as may be easily imagined, full o, the highest possible attractions, as yontbf beauty, wit, &c. Upon which a member got up and begged to put the question to the Speaker, “ Whether the credit and character of the House did not most peremptorily require that in all their deliberations they should bo free from any undue or extraordinary influence ; and whether any of that honorable house could cast their eyes up to the galleries and say they wore so at that moment ? He should, therefore, move that the bevy of beauties should immediately retire.” The ladies obeyed.
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Patea Mail, 31 December 1880, Page 3
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