POLITICAL FAMB.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1471, 17 November 1884, Page 2

POLITICAL FAMB.

The following clever satire is from the pen of"Oivisi" in the Otago Witness :— , *Foi<* member of the House ,of Ri? presßnHti.Vfli , to achieve distinction by pounding industriously away at bills and questions from his. place in the House is very uphill won*- indeed. ThereirashnrterToad to fame than thtftugh the intediumof Parliamentary reports, and it is to be found in that valuable* column .headed Political Gossip, A week's immortality may be attained by means of a freak wliich entitles a man to figure on this living page, and, compared with i**,-* Hansard 4s merely ■-* tuamlufl • o/ ( hj«i*^ ward*. The principal events of thr present session 'which have ' i ftjt«Q j; th>mselve» ou the public mind might, I should sav, be jjouglUy QftMlt^ued as follows i " Membvrs embarked on hotnl th«

im nLiliinMWiiiiLsrji.nl. i ■rrmi-j...-----away — expectation proving unfounded, Where forbidden their Sunday ont in future. -Little difficulty •concerning a certain hon gentleman and Bollamy's — motion thereupon—galleries cleared. Mysterious passage • between the Hon Mr Pharazyn, a pair of gold spectacles, and a pussy cat, respecting which future information desir able.— MrPykeand his bull's-eye — he interviews the Premier — astonishment in the lobbies-— the debate upon the •question. — Episode : Mr Larnach and the telegraph post — the lost hat In all this, it will be observed, there is nothing about the District Railways Bill, or the inscription of debentures, and no reference to them is needed. It is by such peregrinatins as those of Mr Pyke with hi-: bull's-eye orMrPharazyn in search of his spectacles, that the earnest politician really rivets the sympathy of the masses. The above is all we have heard of Mr Larnach this ■session. He has no doubt been voting industriously from his place in tlie "H-insH, but until he collided with the telegraph pole the fast that he was in Wellington, risking life, limb, and wardrobe for the public weal, wae almost forgotten.