PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 781, 25 February 1871, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS.

One of the candidates for Ballarß having promised that, under a certoß contingency, he will, if re-electeß move the extrusion and exclusion B reporters from the Assembly. " Australasian " thus strongly, t>B with great truth, comments thereoflß —" We hope the contingency arise, so that newspaper readers -B enjoy the boon which is thus shadowed. Imagine our daily served up to us at breakfast tvfl divested of those columns of dresß platitudes and turgid fustian wtojjM while Parliament is sitting, the space which would be devoted to much more matter. When the fate of is trembling in the balance, and erfß scrap of intelligence from full of the deepest interest, be moro provoking than to know '"B news of this kind is compelled t°fl

thrust aside in order to make room for a dissertation by Mr Jtiwkins, M.L.A., upou some subject upon which ho knows nothing, and upon which ho is incompetent to express h'uiself grammatically; or to allow the public to be mado acquainted with what Mr Slanger thinks of his opponent, Mr Stinger, and with what ineffable contempt Mr Stinger regards the scurrilous diatribes of the hoti. gentleman below the gangway ? And if Parliamentary twaddle, as contra-distin-guished from Parliamentary oratory, were to cease to be reported, the springs of the former would very soon dry up. There would be less talk and moro work. The transaction, of public business would be expedited, and those sanguine optimists who dream of the arrival of a time when ' government by palaver' will have become a thing of the past, might begin to fix a conjectural date for the consummation of their hopes."