POLITICAL AMENITIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Oamaru Mail, 13 March 1877, Page 3

POLITICAL AMENITIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

For the leader of the Opposition io charge a member of the Ministry with beini* " unconscious for live days from the eflVets of vsineand brandy :" and for the accused, a Responsible Adviser of Her Majesiy's Representative, to retort that "the leader of the Opposition is at the present time living in open adultery with a woman," are: little amenities which find w> parallel in the so-called peaonalitiesof New Zeatand parliamentary life. Such, hnw» ver. '•--tre amotv-,' ttve many exchanges of 'atu* tUtriiy the recent niy-eonti-tkliate i" New"South Wales. Mr. thu-vftt. Minister of Laftcts, the erring membtTof the Extcntive, took no pains to dttiy the soft impeachment, relying upon the ttHtracy of that style of retort exprt'ssttt in the "concise,. !>ut far-reaching, phrase. " You're another." Mr. Pidilmjjtoti, the karkr of the Opposition, felt i-utistratHCtt to say "solemnly/' on his v.-onl " as a man awl a member," that the statement was untrue. Whereupon Mr. J. S. Scnith immediately showed his estimate of the value of lets honorable col-ha-ue*s -soh'tun" asseverations, by declaring that ik it is a fact, nevertheless." A regard for the properties of life restrains oar representatives from such interchange of comptiwwnts as these, which we likewise extract from the reports of the debate aHtady referred 6o:—tMr. Elhone said " he liad made a charge against two Ministers, of whom the Colonial Secretary was one, but the hr.n. gentleman had not taken any notice of it. He meant the «»tfcr made to Mr. Hugh Taylor for ids vote." Mr. Robertson (Premier): '•Whoever says *« tell* a lie." Mr. M'Elhone: "He is more in the habit of telling lies than I am, 3lr. Chairman. He t* a notorious liar, and has been all Lis lice."- Iftttr.