LOSS OF AN AFTER DINNER SPEECH.
[from our own correspondent.]
AUCKLAND, Jan. 2
Mr W. Swanson, one of the notable four who ratted from the Grey party last session was banquette:! last night,by a section of his constituents. The honorable gentleman arrived' at the hanqiietting hall too soon, and he accordingly adjourned to the House of a friendly boniface. On preparing for his speech sometime afterwards he discovered to his horror that-the manuscript had disappeared from his coat pockety in which he had placed it along with some other documents. With a look of intense dismay upon his countenance, he rose to reply to the toast, and made a very discursive and rambling speech indeed. It appears he had offered £1 reward for the recovery of the precious documents, but failing to obtain them, had to stumble along as best he could.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2115, 2 January 1880, Page 2
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