HE TRIED TO DRAW HIM.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 75, 18 July 1876, Page 3

HE TRIED TO DRAW HIM.

A, correspondent of the "Timant Earald " says that in the House, the other dap,. Mr.. Reader Wood made a desperate sffurt to " draw " Mr. Stafford, by raking up sverything that had ever occurred during his political career, and inventing mimbtffs of things which never had oe- \ aurred—hot all in vain. The wary mem- '• hi' for Timaru reclined peacefully on his ; ' bwiuh- vending a pap* with something iilmut a breakwater prmted on the back, [ unit occasionally looking up to t»ftgh at hi» wwuliint. At last Sir. Reader Wood ' hevnme desperate, and invented a story, thnt, whilst in- office, Mr. Stafford had ' urged en Sir fJforge CJrey cruelty and per- ■ sintontly the execution of a criminal, and ' that tile Governor had resisted the blood- j thirsty advice repeatedly given, and had ' rotted the convict's life to spite of hb \ < Ministers wishes. It was realty spten- ' (Hilly dona, and the House's hair almost j stoiid on end when the member for .Par- ; ' null, pointing to Mr. Stafford, thnndered ' out tsltoso words in his dear, ringing v©ke : ; V; -" lE, sir, these things have Happened, « slimilit not that honorable member, in- ' staid of taunting Sir tkorge Grey with « twelessnoss,. thank Ooti that on tluit oeea- j .'ion a kind heart and a clear head ste«>d " between him and murder l' Y For a * niiniuuit there was a horrified panse, but i it was immediately followed by cheers and * lifflirfrtM when Mr. Stafford half raised « himself from his recumbent postttre, and with an air of amused indifference, said, "If the honorable gentleman is not drawiiii; on liih imagination-, I nvnsfc give his t 4:itomunt an unnualined denial. Ko such « Hiinijf over happened." The fact is that j tlio honorable member actually was draw- j i»g on his imagination, and that his mou- ; strous accusation was nothing more than a f grim hoax intended to goat! Mr. Stafford | into im angry discussion. But he was f »mpl«t«ly- foiled in this pious intention. *