THE SPEAKERSHIP.
"Anyone can rule in a calm, But few in a storm," said Mr Saunders, referring to the qualifications of Sir Maurice O'Rorke, and he then proceeded to give some instances of the storms he had witnessed, and which Sir Maurice had so successfully quelled. Mr Saundera claimed to speak with authority when he said he had safe under all Speakers since the time of Sir Charles Clifford. He remembered the dayß of Monro, of the talkative Fitzherbert, of the controlling O'Rorke, and of tbe debating, lawpropeunding Steward ; and O'Rorke, he said, was the man. Mr Hall-Jones, however, thought that Major Steward was also the man, or rather one of the men, for he eaid that they were in the fortunate position of having two men equally able to fill the chair, but judging by the different views among their followers, the Government were perhaps of opinion that this was rather a misfortune, or at any rate that it was not an unmixed blessing.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 18
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165THE SPEAKERSHIP. Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 18
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