UNDER THE CLOCK.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 17 September 1885, Page 2

UNDER THE CLOCK.

" Foor s rush in wheio angels fear to tread."' The-e f.iinili.ir words occ\iircd to tno when, from my vantage ground under the clock, I saw tlio memoir for Puk<*tc plunging boldly into the "lough* of euor on Tuesday night. The lion. gentleman, undetened by "Ampox," >.i>"i that school tcncher-> cram the five 01 six hnghtest boy-, in a. clas-> and allow the remaining twenty odd to *hde. Hid he tho smallest inkling on the subject he would know that tho boot is quite on the other leg, and tli.it if even fho or si\ out of 30 failed in any subject tho inspector would infillibly ploMjjh .ill the class in that hiibject, as he would icg.iid it an a pioof that the teacher had done wlut the him. gentleman imagines he UMi.illy docs. The lion, member for Woodland-, tteated the House to a npeecli in hi-, best style. When ho chooses no one can speak with moie force and conrtesj, or lend to his aiermnents the weight of soifndei education and wider erudition. Ituistto ha\e the ]>le.isuie of listening to many more utteiances of the same calibre from him. Tho linn, and gallant member foi Ng.uu.i uahia has coino forward uh a champion of the damt i, and proposes to nupoit lefine ment into tho debated by tho admission cf ladies to tho House. At any rate if that proposal be acted upon, it will be no longer possible to apeak of " the handsome member." Some r >f the Ministers, by then well judged, but ill-timed attention to the wantn of the ladieb' gallery are probably in xympathetie accord with the gillant captain. One member, with nn avowud pru ference for males and tobacco it., I should judge, proparcd to ambulate the integral porker with hun. The member foi Raglan went back to the mediae al practice of throwing doubt on the theological soundness of his opponent^. To call a man a freethinker may piejudieo the man of the world against him, but is in no souse a reply to his statement. In the instance in point the ch.ugo possessed the additional ment of being based on an any nothing. Oliis.