DEPUTATIONISING THE WRONG MR. SPEIGHT.
We take the following from the Oamaru Mail : — An amusing item has reached us. At the close of last session Mr. Speight, M.H.8., arrived in Napier on his way to his home at the Thames. He is a great teetotaller, and the brotherhood thought it most appropriate that they should appoint a few of their number to wait upon that gentleman to thank him for his efforts iv Parliament in the furtherance of the cause which they have espoused. The deputation accordingly waited upon Mr. Speight, and, in flattering terms, referred to his assiduous championship of what, in their estimation, is the greatest humanising agency of the age. Mr. Speight listened with eyes aglow with delight, and occasionally appropriately acknowledged the compliments as they fell fast and thick from the lips of the head of the deputation. But just at this moment, another member of the brotherhood appeared on the scene. He fixed his gaze on the recipient of the compliments, and exclaimed, "He Speight! Why I saw him drink a glass of whisky yesterday." Nor was this accuser wrong, we fear, for the gentleman who had been deputationised was not Mr. Speight.^the celebrated, teetotaller, but the portly Mr. Speight, "the Dunediu brewer, who was at that time on a business trip to Napier.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4043, 16 May 1882, Page 2
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