POLITICAL GOSSIP IN WELLINGTON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8536, 29 July 1889, Page 3

POLITICAL GOSSIP IN WELLINGTON.

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Monday, July 29— The House adjourned on Saturday night, at 11 o clock, until 230 p.m. today. Mr Withy was Bpeakinsr, and will resume to-day.

MEETING OF COUNTY MEMBERS. A meeting of tho County Party was held this morning, when 45 were present. It decided to refuge the offer of town members, to give 25 per cent increase, and also decided to make it 33£ per cent deduction in the Committee, and a committee waB appointed to make their views knowu throughout the colony. THE BEST SPEECHES JDURINtf TUE DEBATE. 11l reviewing last week's " stonewall, " members say the best speeches were made by Messrs Marcbant and Moss, and Dr Newman. A STRING OF ADJECTIVES. Mr W. P. Reeves started his speech on Friday night by saying he had selected from a dictionary tha foil 'wing list of adjectives which he would apply to the bill, and the applicablenesa of which he immediately proceeded to demonstate :—: — Absurd, arbitrary, anti-democratic, arrogant, artful, annihilating, bewildering, bungling, baneful, burdensome, baffling, oriel, clumsy, conservative, captious, dictatorial, disturbing, damaging, dilatory, destructive, evil, extreme, exasperating, exacting, evasive, flimsy, feeble, factious, foolish, greedy, grasping, harsh, hateful, hasty, humiliating, improper, illiberal, illtimed, ill-tempered, injudicious, involved, intimidating, intolerant, intolerable, inconsiderate, irrational, iniquitous, irritating, inequitable, immoral, intrusive, meddling, muddling, nauseous, nonsensical, oppressive, outrageous, quibbling, reactionary, revolutionary, rasping, ridiculous, tyrannioal, traitorous, tory, unjust, untimely, useless, unsettling, ungenerous, unkind, unfair, unreasonable, unrighteous, unstatesmanlike, unexpected, unhappy, unprincipled, ungrateful, vexatious, vacillating, wrong. He then proceeded to justify the use of these epithets, but had only got to "dictatorial," when ho sat down, after speaking for two hoars. A BAD OMEN. Early on FrHay morning an amusing occurrence took place, in which Mr Mills phyed a prominent part, and enlivened the proceedings. Mr Mills, who was reclining in an attitude of ease, happened to knock off his benoh two or three heavily bound volumes of Hansard, which struck his shins, thereby inflicting cruel pain upon him. The clatter of the falling books and an unavoidable groan which escaped the member for Port Chalmers, aroused slumbering legislators to consciousness, and a humorous town member improved the occasion by suggesting that this was an omen of what was to befall those who were supporting the bill.