UNDER THE CLOCK.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 10 September 1885, Page 2

UNDER THE CLOCK.

TllK new Ministois migrated tn the (Jo\emmen' benches on Tuesday night, and, judging by tlie careful way in wliic!) one of tliein .11 ranged his ccut under him, did not nnd their seat-, over soft. The new Oppo sition ha\c al-«i t.iken a new dep.ii tun 1 , having changed their ] c cc f )r ;i war thief, the lion, member for Puketc. This gentlein.ui hut no tune in dccl.ii ing peice .uid making \\.\r, a mode of piocedure decidedly .t l.i Ktis-,e. lie appeals to h,ne looked at the Ministry through the prism of .1 diop of dew (fioin the pio'int.uu), as he piofessud to <Vco\er all the colours of the political rainbow in " stainless Tuii'>taH\ banner white." When hecimctod2taiK, howe\ei, then; appealed .1 deficiency m the quantity or quality of the dew, as he could detect only tho three pnmaiy colouis. Tho Meicuri.il niumbui was to the front again with an exhibition jf the quality we aie icciistoined t > obsei ye in gentle youths who, when they can't ha\e it all their <>un way in .1 game, cry out, " I won't play. ' The hop. member for llakanm.ita is evidently a disciple of (loethe's, and will die gapping out "Light, nioio light." The more tnan Kgyptian darkness of the cross bench mind ovidontly rofjuiros an o\traordinary amount of lighting pouer, though I should have fancied gas was a theap commodity m that qu.uter. They actually had thei« inoie than a lamp to c - civ mem her. All the House weie glad that the member for Hnntly broke the silence which appealed Intheito chronic. His more fie quent appeiuance in debate would groatly add to the dignity and mteiost of the proceedings of the House. Most of the metnl>eis looked lather guiltily at one another when " Pukekuia" aat down, as he dilated at some length on the crass lgnoiance and deploi.ible iminoiahty of those educated at dcnomiuatioii.il schools. The gnllaut cuptain had as usual his joke, and ,is usii.d announced the bioadsido with a gomal l.uigl). The MmistciH aie in labour with a numeious piogeny, which will mostly, doubtless, pro\e stillborn. Ouns.