A CHOLERIC COLONEL.
The Otogo Daily Tmies is responsible for the following : — X good story comes from Wellington. It helps to illustrate the characters of our representatives. A gallant colonel, one of the late Ministry, met a representative f6r one of our southernmost towns m the smokingroom of the House a few days ago, and upbraided him with haying broken his pledge to his , constituents m voting against the Government. Words waxed hot, a twitching sensation seized the' galtant officer's fingers, and he involun-' tarily grasped the poker. The late Native Minister, seeing the trouble impending, rushed between the excited legislators. "Let him alone;" cried the member from the South. "If the little (adjective) dares to raise it I'll smash his (adjective) skull with my fist," and the big diamond ring which glittered on the little finger of the hon. member's right hand looked as if it have left an ugly mark on the military skull. This is very sad, and leads us to the conviction that hon. members need be put; through a new course of nursery rhymes, as, foi?. instance, . . Members you should liever let? j * j ! ' ! ' Yohr angry passions rise ; v.i. '■ ! Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 934, 27 October 1879, Page 2
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205A CHOLERIC COLONEL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 934, 27 October 1879, Page 2
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