PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHES.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 17 October 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHES.

(Prpm a Cbrisfphprgh paper.) Edward Geobob Wbight, the member for Coleridge, is a tall man, with no spare flesh abont him. His temperament is of that active, enduring kind which physiologists call the fibro*Dervous temperament. Tbe expression of his* face is s.omewhat anxious, bis bead leans a little to the left side, and the wa'k, with ; all its energy, is the walk of a man who feels his way cautiously. He is a model i legislator, who spares himself no trouble to get to tbe bottom of a subject, and one who can ace quieklv and reason justly. He is * a terror to evil doers,' and has an acute scent for jobs, frauds, Apd syyin<Ve& of all kinds. He is not great as a speaker, but is so conscious of that fact that he never speaks except on subjects about j wbich he has acquired some special knowledge. Tbis practice always makes him a welcome teacher to the House, and causes him to be listened to with a patience and attention that is not generally accorded to those who rise merely to show off their debating powers. - Thomas S. Weston, the new member for tbe Grey Valley, looks like a slender boy of 10 years old carrying the head of a man of 50. He speaks with as much accuracy as Mr WakefHd, bat too solemnly and pompously, and appear? to lack any sense of tbe ridiculous. He often puts a question very clearly before his audience, but generally takes too long about it. He has not got over tbe Judge's manner, and talks as if he were not talk* ing to his equals. He is not liable to be disconcerted by the roughest attacks ot bis unmannerly colleagues, and nothing shakes his cool self-possession and self" confidence. He is evidently fast adapt* in? himself to his new work, and he has all the essential qualities of a useful legislator. . i