A Parliamentary Critic.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 483, 22 July 1890, Page 3

A Parliamentary Critic.

“Wellington Watchman,” in the Catholic Times, has a clever satirical way of des cribing the proceedings in the House. This is the style in which he gives his points At this juncture (10 pmJ Mr Ballance qtfietly entered the House, Captain Russell sat down, and Mr Taylor arose with a jocund “ Sir !” to compliment the last speaker on his very “ hable haddress.” It was rather cruel to put up the unassuming Taylor to reply to so much mess-room wit and barrack-room eloquence as had preceded him ; but life is full of afflictions and a thankless and unappreciative House strolled out and left Mr Taylor to waste his limited sweetness and light on empty benches and a somnolent Sergeant-at-Arms. Mr Taylor touched on a variety of subjects—ranging from the heavens above to the earth beneath and the waters under the earth—in his usual elegantly inconsequent manner, but to his own entire satisfaction, gallantly holding the fort, with intervening calls for a quorum, until the supper adjournment. He got “|oq the spot” as regards Captain Russell, who sneered at him. “The Hon. Gent, can sneer; of course he can, for he represents 20,000 acres of land and 200,000 sheep I” Another flash of eloquence on Mr Taylor’s part: “We all know ; we all know—l’m not so simple as I look 1” Then we adjourned for sapper and to argue the question of M Taylor’s simplicity. After that light rer flection Mr Taylor again holds us enthralled by his simple but telling eloquence. Mr Taylor* is in a patronising mood; he patronises many members, but literally lavishes patronage upon Mr Maoarthur, to whom he gives hopes of “getting into a Government some day.” At which Mr Macarthui smiles in a Afe phis tophi lean but not altogether comfortable manner. Mr Taylor alludes to the Wanganui Chronicle as a “ very celebrated paper, a fact which will possibly considerally stagger, as it flatters, the proprietor. *He persistently refers to Mr Scobie Mackenzie in a melancholy minor key as “Mount Ida,” and sits down at 11.30 amid* tbe applause of a relieved House, when Dr Fitchett moves and carries the adjournment, and l adjourn to the outer mud with the convlotion that the country has been swindled out of another 24 hours of time, and some hundreds of pounds of money* Will it boorot thus}