NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS, CROOKED COURSES, AND BOILED TURNIPS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1080, 31 August 1883, Page 3

NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS, CROOKED COURSES, AND BOILED TURNIPS.

These are some of the little pleasantries I indulged in between three of the Dunedin j| members, amongst whom brotherly love •j does sot continue. The occasion was when ;| :Le Otago Harbour Bill was under con- ;| K'lderasian. and Mr Green, speaking of the efforts Mr Fish had made ■j defeat the Bill, said that the Is would prefer an open foe rather than a i professed supporter who was its concealed enein)-; Mr Green replied in a very personal' manner to some of Mr Fish’s criticisms ; and also referred to a telegram in the Dunedin Herald , which he said.was sent by Mr Bracken as its correspondent. Mr Bracken objected to this statement, and asked what right the hen. member had to make it. Mr Green said he knew that Mr Bracken was the Herald's correspondent. Mr Bracken again denied the member’s right to make that statement. Mr Wynn Williams : You know you are. - ~ ; Mr Green ; Will you deny that you are the correspondent ? Mr Bracken would neither admit nor deny it, but, what he did deny was that Mr Green had any right to discuss a private matter in that House. (Laughter.) Mr Green also charged 'Mr Fish with pursuing a tortuous policy. One instance was a telegram sent last year'by Mr Fish, stating that Mr Macahdfew was then professing to support the. Bilj, hut was secretly working against it. This and other actions showed the crooked courses Mr Fish resorted to. Mr Fisli protested that this pharge of doing crooked things was .unparliamentary. Mr Green modified the expression, without taking away its sling. The second reading was then agreed,to on the voices, only a few dissenting. On the motion.for going into Committee'presently, ' Mr Bracken made a personal retort on Mr Green, describing him as a soft, gulli-, ble, and easily imposed on ; also a believer in the reading powers of the I ‘lcprnpd pig”; and finally summing him up, a? a simpleton, who was free from guile, but “ soft as a boiled turnip.” (Laughter)., Mr Green retorted that these were only -samples of Paddy Murphy’s yarns.”