A FORCIBLE RETORT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10025, 22 April 1910, Page 4

A FORCIBLE RETORT.

Sunato.f Trenwith mads what may justly described as a forcible report to a Labour interjector after his meeting at South Melbourne Town Hall one evening last week, says the Melbourne "Argus." The meeting was a particularly noisy one. Senator Trenwith was in «o mood, after it was over, to deal gently with post mortem insults by the boohoos. He left the Town Hall, meditating upon the subject of Labnur interruption, and was walking down . the street with his wife. The naise of organised rowdies gave way to the silence of night—he was forgetting all unpleasantness. His peace was rudely broken. One of the Labour boohoos came up behind him. "Yah! Trenwith!" he cried. "You—— twister!" The Senator might have forgiven the "twister." but he certainly would not forgive the foul word used in the presence of his wife. Singular as it may appear to the boohoo type, foul language betore ladies is not considered good form in decent society. The angry Senator acted up to bis insulter's second qualification. He twisted—twisted around suddenly and struck the astonished offender with all his strength. The blow caught !be man on the angle of the jaw, and he fell to the pavement, where he lay far a while to think over this new and unsuspected capacity of insulted Senators. As he

1 thought over the matter a crowd gathered, attracted by the prone figure on the ground, and a policeman arrived attracted by the crowd. .Senator Trenwith explained. . The man had used gross language before his wife. The constable put his hand down and jerked the fallen bravo to his feet. He asked whether Senator Trenwith would care to proceed farther. "No," replied Senator Trenwith, "I think he's had enough." So the constable let go the man's collar, and he slipped away into the darkness.