Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1895. "BIRD BULLER."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5169, 30 October 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1895. "BIRD BULLER."

There was a big crowd in the Parliamentary opera house on Monday night to witness a glove contest between the Hill-side Shepherd and Bird Buller. Poor Mr McKonzie! It was au unlucky day for him when he fell foul of one of the cutest 0 lawyers in or out of the Colony, He (l had not a chance of scoring, for while [J he endeavoured to seal phis opponent ; after a primeval fashion, the latter, i' cool and collected as the former was hot and headstrong, warded every blow, and in the civilost manner in is the world pinked his adversary. Of y Bird Buller it may be said in the '• words of Lord Byron (taken iu a political sense)— " He was tlio mildest monnei'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat," s It was all Lombard-street to a China orange that Bird Buller should win and the Hill-side Shepherd be nowhere. Or, to take another metaphor, Bird Buller resembled the 6 Matador who calmly faces the rain- ' pant bull and, smiling sweetly upon c him, fixes dart after dart in the i. shoulder of his raging but helpless k enemy, If anyone has a down on a Mr McKenzie he can forgive him now that he has fallen foul of Bird Buller. We feel sorry too, for the r Houso which took up Bird Bulk's , quarrel, which indeed took up Buller ' himself, and dropped him like a hot t potato. It may be said of Bird Buller that he lias always come off best in all his undertakings, and when aHousoof arather pooraverage , brq,in power tried to take a rise ) out of one pf the shrewdest members of the legal persuasion, it simply collapsed. Compared with " Bird Buller" men like even Mr Seddon may be described as a little " dotty." Tlio Premier fears nobody, excepting perhaps hiscolleague, tlio Minister for impels, but when ' Bird Buller came on the scene ho seemed suddenly to wilt, A man ■ who attacks an angry lawyer is 1 usually a fool, but a man who assails 1 a lawyer, who ought to seeni angry ' but is'nt, is simply an idiot. The , Premier is not an idiot, and so he said i plainly, I won't make one in this i serimmngg. He did not miud his colleague throwing himself into a | hrarnbl? bush, but he was not going ; i to follojv him tliej'e, Bojth ho and ( ■ the House wero soon tired of fooling . jvith Bird Buller, and' it now | remains to be seen whether the i redpubtable JfuKeuzio himself yijl i not cave iu. lie had better, for jf men of the calibre of Bird Buller, it may be said,'Q«o tvialiseiiough," • We would like tg express our onthuiastjc admiration of Bjrd Buller/ 1 , where he aeoepW j, brief, Ije smjk'iif i a bill for £3,500, Could Mffe j

zie have scored like this? Eoor ; MoKenzie, he thought lie was safe i when he said "no " to the invitation of Spider Buller to come into his parlour, "Well, if you wont," replied Spider Buller, I'll come out t to you and gobble you up, and to all intents and purposes our buzzing angry Ministerial fly is gobbled up,