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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 287, 28 November 1908, Page 3

STOPPING THE COMBAT. * scene that was more than faixi 'U I noil in the British House of ( mong hist session. Two of the i sedate members of the House were with their coats off, ami with a siaiai old policeman standing between them. | b two had been downstairs to ' ...eir hands, and by some, mischance l changed coats. 'They went into the House together. One of them, putting his hand in His coat-pocket, pulled out an old briar pipe of very strong flavour. It was not his. He looked at the C" L - 1 "' i 1 "1 "' his neighbour, and, tur said:— "Excuse me, but I think you have p... on mv coat." "I beg your pardon; I've done nothing of the kind." " I think," veplic "this is your pipe; and if you hand into the r' coat you are \v._. „ . e!" was the reply. "Yo.. e right. What shall we do?" annot change in the House," erved the first member. " Let us g« into thi' division loW>y." Here is where the policeman came in. Seeing the two facing each other, aul c time taking off their coats rushed up, and, placing a hand on the shoulder of each, said:— "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Not here,