ONE FOR HIS NOB.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1074, 21 July 1880, Page 2

ONE FOR HIS NOB.

Muff Rio3ar» ifsEDpoNyjM? H^. yfor Hpkitika, gave iHte_lHbuse" some valul able, infprmatioa:. jfche other .day as,-TO whai,hkd r 'l)een^ttie"^ M^e"" Jo" ; tKe titfie^ of ' 1M rising ; to 'speak. ' ' ' He state^ 'tKjit 'tKS speeches had made -nfty-tw : b : ' f ya?ds ! 'qf "HansaTrdj'^anid .^had cbst^th^e "cbunla^ no less a' sum ? than-£20b0, -which would. be/Bufficu>ut:torConste road or^^w^jye-)niles: .'of^t^apk, or ;pay the^honorariuniL -g£ ten ; '9jeinbe^s J? pf.^^e r . House 1 ; tp_ \viii6bL : ' i wh i . wfll ■ afi'd ? ' 5 a i - ! U^ilo further: fLinfprmafcipnj r viz/j ,j. jthat Seddon-"theh proceeded; to* 'weary' "the House for three tibunf* and . a-half', that hia speech in " Hansard "" rbcqupieß^ovf r . forty columns, cbnsisfcing" of three hundred and eight inches, .twenty-six ■ feel,- . or more than bight' solid . yards j and. that, accordingtb his own "figuring," this mass of verbiage; cost • the country no less a sum than £305. : If any. example Ve're "'. wanting"' to show" 'the frightful ' prodigality pF< the;; present ''Hansard " sy.3temi; l itris<«fford i ed.: now. ■'». i The/oostof this, one speech alone wpul^ have made a nSiie and a" half 'of tracks,' and' paid an .honorarium' and a" half tb - a member " of the lLower br the Upper. House,'whilß! it would have gone .far. towards procuring that steam -communication with '' the West Qoastj .Mr. -jSeddpn's " pbaerva-' tions "on which 'a fe^nigh^s'laier'must have cost at least anqiher- £IOQ._ H*i tfiere 7 beerfiio * "'in" existence to have reported :: every J word which fellfrom r the hbnbrable; ■gehtleman's'' lips, or if- the 'f'-' Hansard ' ' ■< 'sys temt were.^ ptily precis reporting and = 'involved^ th'e> :rejection^pf. vefbiagei suchs an ; 'enormous expense^ fpr ;: no earthly. good wonld never'havebeen^inflicted on ithe •country. ;i - The mere: cost of f 'Hansard " in a direct form is as-' nothing compared with the immense" additional expense it leads up to in fncpuragipg members to waste the time an^" money of the House 4h ; d i: the' country)^^t is'tp/Jbe'hpp^d the House Will' tdke" this" I matter 'into' its serious consideration.^' ■ Three rhuiidred and five ''pounds for one 'speech ! and -such' a speech != As>the ; man saysdn^the play, -■" This is too much !" ■^". About the greatest .kVoWi : " J fl'aid i ikeTa^mer'B"-Tbbyi i'"-isr;ioiw-peaCObki^-' ,«;:i^;^.'