THE OLD MAN AT HIS BEST.
Mr Omdstonk was himself agiin, and at liti best, on the fatal morning. The magnificent peroration by which ho hushed into silence o le of thy most turbulent oppositions that ever j«»ered and interrupted a great orator stands unequalled and uuapproached by anything that has been heard in the House for many a long year. Of Mr Gladstone it may be emphatically asserted that "none but himself cau be his parallel, "and for anything to compare to the splen lid burst of dignified and sustained eloquence, the echoes of which are ringing through the land, we must go back to his famous speech on the second reading of the Reform Bill 1866, to which, indeed, it is hi some respects very curiously similar.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2200, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129THE OLD MAN AT HIS BEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2200, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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