LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2073, 20 October 1885, Page 2

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.

Loitn Randolph Churchill, has in a, series of bounds, become ho prominent, th.it it may bo of interest to give the public ns correct an idea of his personal .ippearenco a* Mr Come (Jrant, his late opponent, has given the elector* of Wool stock of his political qualification*. Animated by the notion presumably th.it " tlio nnnd s the st.Midaid of the man," the c.irlcntunsts of runch and other English publications have usually represented this irrepressible young sprig of the aristocracy as a diminutho crcatuie of .ibont the dimensions of the l.ito Kail Rusti'll. Actually, Lord Kandolph Chuiuhill is of quite average height. It has boen his custom when taking "the fluu 1 " of tin; House of commons to indulge in hi* favorite pastime of Gladstone baiting, to begin by legardmg bin glossy boots no though he sought inspiration from leather as tough an his conscience. Hii oration I*,1 *, so fin, appioach lanikinisin more closely than statesmanship. It has been thought that the written speech of tho quondam lender of the "Fourth Party" has hern hidden in hi* boots, and that therefrom he has pumped up by an ctfott of niomory tlie choice phrases, which in Htndent voiuo ho jerks out very muoli an Mr Joseph CowiH appnuntly lad Jus out hi« caiofully prepared inipiomutiiH from tho capacious n de-pocket of his pilot coat. Lord Randolph Chei chill would very well answer to the popular description of a " niaf-hei , " tin, eye glass h\od, he has been wont to lounge twultllg tho enda of hi< Hwmstaulie in hi» nnug comer of tho fiont Opposition bench below tho gangway, or has nednloualy •trivon to impart the peculiar stylo of n Muwc-Hall "comiquo" into the House of Cu^mq^a wli»l« on W\s legs,