BRETT ON BATHGATE.
In the course of the debate in the Council on the address in reply last week, Mr Bathgate delivered himself of one of those amicable didactic speeches which find such acceptance down south. Next day Golonelßrett ip the course of hi* speech, suddenly lashed out upon tho “puir auld body "in these terms:—“His was one of those oiap-trap speeches, sir, that you bear at elections, and which, 1 have no doubt, was a copy of many of the speeches that he has delivered to bis Scotch friends at Dunedin, and also to the barbarians in the back slums of Scotland and Great Britain. I have no doubt it is, word for word —all this about the beautiful straw for Leghorn bonnets, and all that kind of clap-trap—-and I have no doubt it has met with the same feelings of indifference as it left on me, I therefore drop the subject, leaving the honorable gentleman to the belief that what he said was to his credit and to the credit of the House to which he has come,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3818, 3 July 1885, Page 2
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