Parliamentary Tit Bits

Woodville Examiner, Volume XIX, Issue 3304, 6 September 1901, Page 2

Parliamentary Tit Bits

{Clippings from Hansard). " We want to legislate against the inhuman father, and I am pleased to say there are very few in my electorate."—Mr O'Meara, =•: * # " Let us do away with that sort of feeling—that the man who has the most loyal heart is the man who wears the most expensive jewel-be-decked shirt front, costing 5d at the laundry."—Hon. G. Joneß. : * * * " If Oamaru is unfortunate in the position she is in to-day, my honorable friend Mr Jones is a good deal to blame for it. He helped to aid and assist in its downfall."—Mr Shrimski. " Yes, X helped to put you into Parliament."—Mr Jones. -' * v . * " In a country like this it should be the boast of the young people of the colony that the Land of the Moa, like the home of their ancestors, is ocean-girt, and one of the charms of that home is that one cannot go many miles to the right hand or to the left but the vista of ocean either gladdens the senses with the rippling beauty of a gentle sea, or the spirits are stirred in sympathetic excitement at the turbulent frolic of the stormdriven waves, these feelings revealing the avatism of Viking blood still lurking in our veins."—Mr Monk. * * * " It is by reminding people of the 1 wretched past' that we have compelled those gentlemen opposite to efface themselves, and for the time being to come out as Government supporters."—Mr Seddon. *'■ * * " It does not require the farmers to bring me to my knees. I think the honorable member for Eden will admit that the difficulty both of us would feel would be to get off our knees."—The Premier. ■ I