MEN OF THE OLD SCHOOL.
Tbe House of Commons recently sat for 30 consecutive hours, Among the personal incidents of the sitting, , Bays the “ Pall Mall - Gazette,” one is worth noticing by" thoce who amuse themselves bv collecting examples of extraordinary - vigor and length of days.' .One member pic sat in the old unreforaed Pariia*
ment of 1830, was in his place on the, Friday, afternooon; went- away to dinner, oamo back in due time; and was actually still to be seen in the House so date as noon on Saturday, still in his evening clothes and with a faded flower in his button-hole. He reappeared late in the afternoon, and saw the end of the scene. How many young members; sitting in the Hooee today, will be able t# perform a similar feat in the Parliament of 1932 ? Yet that is no more remote from us than the Parliament of to-day from the first session of The O'Gorman Mahon.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2950, 8 September 1882, Page 3
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160MEN OF THE OLD SCHOOL. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2950, 8 September 1882, Page 3
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