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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 105, 14 July 1876, Page 2

B— —a— — — — ammmm. mam The custom of ringings the curfew bell has been continued at Launceston in Cornwall from the days oi William the Conqueror to the' present time. Lately however the Town Council "re* solved to discontinue the practice in order to save the. expense of two guineas a year. y Regarding the hon . member for Geraldine, Mr Wakefield, editor of the 'Timaru Herald,' the ' Guardian's' correspondent writes :— Conspicuous in a velveteen shooting-coat and he&vy moustache, which he spends much time in training, is the member for Geraldine, who evidently considers himself a rppre*sentative man." ' He takes' many nbtes ' of the proceedings wit^ut: .apparently .y-. making* any use of theoi,a'nd whenthe new members are in , any way referred to, he draws himselt up 'and look's dig- i: •> nified. The approach of. an attack of speaking is. always to be recognised by „ the way in which this .member's hair gets rumpled by the passing of his left • ; * hand through it, andf a certain wild* 4 - rolling of the eyes, for some time pre* -/n viously. When he does speak he has not much to say, and says it in a solemn,. A 7 impressive way, and in a tone" which is 1 i rather top assuming for a young man. j He is a man of'teW acquaifi'tance_/and yj seem* to consider himself fairly installed \ | in the position ot Lieutenant to Statford^Y J I ,whom , he' ; invariably- 'con^tsS^efor^ *: ? j speaking, and always- turns to".fbfi?™^J provial when hesits^dojyn.*' "O^^peaky ing is far from fd«sible s ,,and not' even | effective. He is : 3fifecfed u with a special j borr.or of Rees, the Aucklaiid.member. . 1