SIR MAURICE O'RORKE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 34

SIR MAURICE O'RORKE.

i Sir <P M. O'R eke, Speaker of the i House ..I' Representatives, returned from a Pip lo the Old Country by the Gothic ion Sundiy. It. wax if years I'inee Sir : yiu'iiieo had paid'a visit to his native lend, and naturally li ' found many . changes, one of tho principal being tiio decrease in population in Ireland. :"Half the pojiul.ition has gone since I was a youngster," he says with a touch rif sad in •, and iii: 1 ?i-• i- remarks on tho evident signs of depression that wero observable, wherever bo went. "While in Loudon, Sir Maurice, wit" several time.; in tho Hun.;!.' of Commons, and heardspooehos by 311- Morloyand .Mr Joseph Chamberlain. Mr dully, tho new Speaker of the Houso if Commons, received him very c irdinlly, and .-bowed him personally all over the House, and provided him with a seat sometimes on the floor of the House and at others in the gallery where ambassadors are accommodated. Sir .Maurice heard seveiai dehat' ; in tie; If-,use, and is of opinion thai the manner in which business is conducted in tho New Zealand Houie of Rc-pri.-scntativos compares very favourably wi-ii that of the English House. A vi. if to hi;; brc!lmr in Norfolk and brief .ley.-; at Hastings, Brighton and Cambridge, interspersed witii a return to Loudon to witness the Oxford and Cambridge boat I race, completed a very pleasant visit. j