LORD BEACONSFIELD'S DOUBLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 936, 29 October 1879, Page 2

LORD BEACONSFIELD'S DOUBLE

Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian Prime Minister, who tas just arrived m town (says the World), is lively to create a good deal of sensation iii socibty, for reasons other than, connected with his mission. The Canadian Premier supplies a likeness to Lord Bdaconsfield which is almost bewildering m its exactitude. :If : jSir- Jehnj- having^ -neachp t ebserved ourT^remier's dfess^wsifc"' , to < possess himself of -ft costume of the same make, and were to walk -into the * House of Lords, none of the doorkeepers^ would think of stopping him,' whilst tho^ Marquis of Salisbury might be expected gently to pr&fe '3hW hand bf T, h«' ; slar foitod, and 'inquire After the^fcout. Consciously, or uriconsbioUAly, Sir John assists nature with a few touches pt art. He wears his hair pirecijseljH aA s _hd. Beaconsfield wears his, or rather aa the Premier wore his when he was -about eight years younger. His face ia Qltwaly shaven, and its whole $*[>£<?• c3fs£lnd expression are phenobinklly lik&'Lord Beaoonsfield. Nor is the 'Mtiilitude confined to physical featunSfc r33itstßhn Macdohald had many of the social and political qualities , of Lord. Beaoonsfield. He is witty andgriaceful m conversation, epigrammatic m . • Parliament, and audacious ih politics. , ' - , ' ■ ' • ' -

Youth t yes, it is curious I> have no beard ; I can't think, mhod takeafteij— my grandfather liad a splendid Hair cutter : Oh; p6rhaplj l you' take after your grandmother.