THE PARLIAMENT OF THE FUTURE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2307, 29 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE PARLIAMENT OF THE FUTURE.

lam not prepared on the spur of the moment to propose a substitute for Parliaments, for the subject is one of importance, md requires some consideration. But if things go on as they are for another generation, that Parliament which does the least work will be most honored, the barren session will be hailed as a boon, and the legislator who spends all his time in the billiard and refreshrooms will be cherished as-a public benefactorand thesaviourjof his country, Then perhaps some lover of his species will give tho finishing touch by carrying the female suffrage, and securing the return of " still strong" women members, ruled by a woman Premier. oye Gods! that I could see that day .and read its Parliamentary reports. Then indeedlife would be worth living, the jaded mind could then rejoice in the unutterably ridiculous and then we might look reasonably from beginning to the on'd. Some wise despot would bo sent by Providence to take us in hand for a year or two. till the collective wisdom" could: bo gathered in some other and more effective way than by the effete Parliamentary system, and men would soon come to regard the obsolete law-making machine as a; relic of dark and barbarous ages.—Argus correspondent.

A recent land salt; in England may be an occasion for fruitful study on the part of mure' than ono sort of philosophers. Fifty acres of pasture in Lincolnshire were sold for £1,850, which had brought £3,40j) thirty yeaM