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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 16, 17 April 1902, Page 29

In an article on ' The Fun of Reporting Parliament,' the 'Daily Mail' tells some rather good stories about • The Gallery.' Dr. Magee, the late Protestant Archbishop of York, was made to declare in the House of Lords that ' drunkenness is jolly ' , what he really said being that

• drunkenness is folly.' There is a siory about O' Council winch seems new — lie once complained in the House of a report in a London 'paper which, he said, put into his mouth opinions he had never expressed, and he declared that if the editor did not apologise he would move that ho bo brought before the Bar of the House for a breach of privilege. Next day the reporter of the speech waited upon O'Connell and gave a most remarkable explanation. He slated that during his walk from the House to his ottiee in Fleet slice) the ram streamed into his p<h kcts and obliterated the notes of the speech. ' I accept the explanation ' s,\ id O'Connell, good-humor-,u!l\'.. ' but let me say that it must lia\e been a \ery extraordinary shower of rain, "or it not only washed out of >our note-book the s.Kcch I delhcred, but washed in another of an entirely diflerent character '