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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3892, 20 June 1881, Page 2

A humorous incident occurred, ml an Australasian Legislature some time ago. A ne'er do-weel reporter joined the the gallery staff, and came to take his turn in, to say the least, a dubious condition/ »He. took his seat and stared ' sapiently at the row that was going on below. Presently he wrote on a slip of paper and handed it to his chief, who petulently thvew it from him. The innocent fluttered down upon the bald head of the Premier, who was then engaged in a fight with the leader of the, Opposition* ' and on his opening it he found these words :—" Please lend me sixpence; I'm dying for the want of a drink." Never was the Premier so thunderstruck. Th§, gallery know* that reporter no more. Mr F. B, Spofforth, the "demon bowler," did a plucky thing the other '■ day. A horse attached to a waggonette, with a young lady in it (in the vehicle, you know, not the horse) bolted furiously. "Spoff" caught the trap, got in at the', back, and pulled the bruto, that is to saj ' the horse—*up just in time to aare the lady from a smash. The fair one is a Sydney lady, and that she is beautiful va saiis dire. We trust soon to be supplied ' with further information, so that we may be enabled to wind up the story in tho orthodox maqjier.—Sydney Bulletin;