AN ASTONISHED LEGISLATOR.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 925, 8 July 1891, Page 3

AN ASTONISHED LEGISLATOR.

. He was a Minister, a splendid Democrat and he belonged to the new Deinocralii New Zealand party. His Excellency ih Governor, desiring to be particularly civi to that party, and hearing that ihia fine, pew democrat was m the neighborhood o

Auckland, wired te him, 'T '.vnnW 1 ile o • *• c von ; enn five von a bed ' And tb Minister, smiling n fine wide Ruiln. dn'* •lriiv-id m Ih 0 evening, nnd wis wcirnmi" 1 linnut wi'h efl'unioi. by the G ■vf<rn" ,, ) wli ccustomod by this lin.o to Dcm'-emc" produced his own espeehl whNky b-iltl md some irropronchnblo c'girfl. Aftr-i mi vernation Iho Democrat iva-< ••nlifrcd t ■ i.is bedt-nmn by Ibo Gold Mic.lc m w..il inn or sonii thinjr like that. Tn the. m rrdiv hn Minipler bad dis'ippeaie 1. Ho .'.wnc iol to lunchni n, though they dragged the '•I.'irbnur for him; ho came not to dinner. Hut late m the evening he walked m with his best hat on nnd his exuberant laugh The Private Secretary mot him ; 'My dear »*■■, lnw are you ? You didn't come to breakfast; Hia Excellency missed you at lunch ; we wuit"d dinner Por you ! ' • W h-a-t ! ' said the Minister. ' Ych; TL's Excellency was very surprised Why didn't you como?' 'W-h-a-t,' gasped the Minister again ; 'come to breakfast, and to lunch," and to dinner?' ' Yea, certainly,' said the secretary bland•y- --' Whov,' /roaned the Minister, 'Darn me. I didn't know as how the invite included tveher V And he went plowly Bnd sadly to bed thinking of whit he had lost, and moirning 'he three shillings he had ppint at the restaurant for ' lu^ker.'