A COMICAL INCIDENT.
The Herald correspondent telegraphs : — Mr Vincent Pyke is excessively sore over the organised stonewall that was set up last night in committee on the Otago Central Railway Bill, and he is especially bitter againt Sir George Grey, Messrs J. Mackenzie, Hobbs, and Thompson (Marsden). In connection with this a most amusing incident occurred while a division on the . Mining Bill was in progress this afternoon. Mr Pyke happened to go into the "ayes" lobby, but turned indignantly back on seeing Mr Hobbs, one of the stonewallers, voting on. the same side. On going into the opposite lobby, however, he discovered another stonewaller in-the person of Mr Thompson. "Isthore nowhere," exclaimed Mr Pyke 1 ' in 4ies\wit, « whwQ aa Wea* nm
tiikifoi&f' ?He then gave it as his opinion that there should tea third looby for, " gentlemen " to go into ywheh they desired to vote.
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Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 30, 14 July 1888, Page 2
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146A COMICAL INCIDENT. Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 30, 14 July 1888, Page 2
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