While the Lower House was awaiting the close of a conference regarding Bills disputed by the two Houses, members gave themselves away, with a burlesque Parliament, in which the fun was generally far-fetched and feeble. The principal business was a staid discussion on an imaginary Bill to tax bachelors. One of the gallery spectators remarked that members are much more amusing when they’re serious,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1182, 26 October 1894, Page 36
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