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Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 25, 1 September 1894, Page 20

Says the Bulletin :—“ The new Maoriland Legislature is said to be in the aggregate younger, rather better-looking, and much better-dressed than its predecessor. This is obviously oneof the first results of female suffrage. The old Legislature was an elderly, slovenly and hard-faced congregation, and about as. different from its successor as a bull-dog is "from a bird of Paradise.” Who’s been stuffing our Sydney contemporary we should like to know ? The new members are by no means a particularly handsome lot. Some of them are ugly enough to smash a camera if they stood before it, and others, in general get-up would make capital scarecrow’s in a sparrow-infested paddock. “ And what a mean lot,” said a Wellington boarding-house keeper to a Fair Play representative rhe other day. Pound a week I charge mine, too —used to get two notes in the old days —ahd you should see them eat and hear, them growl. Wish to goodness they’d clear out. Members, indeed, I don’t want any ; more of them.” The cabbies and shopkeepers say much the? same thing:—“ meanest lot' I have ever seen,” •The Comte de Paris, the Orleanist Prince, who is said to : be dying of cancer, states his belief that France is yearning for. the restitution of the Monarchy. The last King, Louis PhiDippe, was a fat old stupid, who bolted from Paris like a whipped cur in *4B; and as for the Republic,-itis to-day stronger than ever' it was. Strange how these royal fossils cherish the fond delusion that everyone .wants them. :