WELLINGTON.
. This day. The following choice bit of gossip, which is known to detail facts, appeared in "this morning's New Zealand Times. It ia possible to be too grandiloquent and we have heard of a case which seems to prove the truth of this. The leader of the Oppositionis not unaccustomed to promise "to resist to the death " and such" like. These promises too frequently are.jQ-fiuT' afcove the level of their subject as lo'combiiie the sublime with the ridiculous. . But it is said that this combination was never so" curiously effected as yesterday. On the morning of that day, so it is reported, the distinguished gentlemen under notice waited upon "the head of the Government and said, "In consequence of the action of ministers in shelving my motion regarding the confiscated lands I shall make such revelations as will astonish the colony and shock the empire. The head of the Government was equal to the occasion. He smiled with the beaming softness which is said ever to characterise him and replied, washing his hands with invisible soap the while, " Well, Sir George; I trustee empire and I may survive the shock."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2067, 19 August 1875, Page 2
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191WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2067, 19 August 1875, Page 2
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