DARGAVILLE IN AND OUT OF UNIFORM.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 233, 6 November 1873, Page 2

DARGAVILLE IN AND OUT OF UNIFORM.

Mb Williamson drew the following odious comparisons - between Mr Dargaville's mental and physical attributes at lii* meeting at the Thames, on Monday night : — "My friend Mr Dargarille has been very complimentary to roe ftt the Tiiuincs. Sir, he ipoko of me as one whom he had known long enough, and he believed I had Tory good motives, and all that. He said I had a good heart — a largo heart — but my head, ho thought, wa» not equal to my hesrt. Well, sir r I occupied a bed-room one night with my friend at Helensville. We happened to moot there, and he 'told me he had been asked to stand for the Superintendency, but he had nonotion of it— not a bit. (Laughter.) Whether lie wunted to put the callippcrs to my head to find out its dimension* or not, I cannot tell. (Laughter). But, sir, he said if my head was as good as my heart I would be one'of the greatest men in the colony. (Laughter.) Well, sir, all I can say in regard to that is this : That if my friend Mr Dargaville's-. head was as big as another part cf his physical formation-ay* (laughter and cheers) — which may be seen only to advantage when ho appears in uniform — (renewed laughter) — then, 1 say, ho would not only be the greatest man in the colony, but the greatest man in creation — (loud applause) — that is, supposing he had brains enough to fill it, and intellect enough to work the brains that were in it, (Cheers.) fie said also, sir, in your hearing, that he had no objection to me. but hehad to my tail. (Laughter.) I was very good, but I bads bad tail. Sir, after the last election I lost my tail altogether. It was not according to the Darwinian system of develop* ment, and somehow or other the tail dropped mo, or I drop* ped my tail. But I can say this, that 1 had a good bushy tail, and I never dragged it through the mire or the filth. — (Groat cheeriug ) Mr Dargarslle bos a tail ; the two points of it appeared upon the hustings. (Laughter.) I would not like to belong to Mr Dargaville's tail, if he is determined to drag it through the mire as be did on that day. (Cheers) .