Pen and Ink Sketches.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6259, 4 July 1890, Page 3

Pen and Ink Sketches.

A chatty chnffy writer in the JSeio Zealand Times rattles on about Members in this style;— Every session sees Sir George with the usual array of Bills For Giving Everybody Everything. The Elective Governors Bill, Contagious Diseases Act Beppal Bill, and law .Practitioners Bill are all equally well known to us. The Law Practitioners Bill is one on passing which he has set his heart. -When it becomes law the human race will be fceltep off. You shall be able to “ go through

the Court” at a trifling cost, appeals, motions, summonses, and so on will not frgbteu jou, and advice v»ill be dear at any price. We shall have A Good Time Gei.enby. M*anwhile Mr Samuel stands between us and Canaan.

Mr Samuel bobs up serenely every session, Divorce Bill in hand, puts his two bunds far down into his breeches pockets, and exhausts the divorce subject, dropping some of his h’s and all his final g’s with diabolical consistency en route, but making a sound and able speech withal. less extreme in all respects, excepting his ambition for celebrity as a reformer, is Major Steward, who has not been a strong party man since in the good old time Mr Montgomery, Sir George Grey, and the Canter bury members united in putting him up to oust the Atkinson-Bryco-Rolleston Ministry. When the mode of electing licensing and school committees in altered, and the cumulative vote is gone, Major Steward will retire on his laurels, venerable beard, straight-cut clothes, and all. Like Mr Samuel at the Divorce Bill, bo will hammer away persiatingly, and hit bis thumb sometimes, but at last the nail will bo driven home and the country will be free again ! Mr Wilson’s annual education upheaval has not happened yet, and Mr Turnbull has only asked one question about finance. Mr Pyke’a new draught-board overcoat must mean something, but at present no ono can say what. Then there is Mr Hutchinson, almost the cleverest man in the House, much given to tubing for Mr Fergus, and occasionally catching him ; and Mr Fitzherbert, whose strong point is that he does not talk much.