To the Editor of the "Norra-Curya Dairy News."
Sir:—It is rather late in the day to refer to J. H. C's interesting letter in your columns of May 31, but this issue has only just reached I believe that the only occasion on which a member may—and indeed must—speak sitting and covered is when, a division having been called, he desires to address the Chair on a point of order.
The amusing incident fetorred to by your correspondent of a member with a large head, finding himself at such a juncture without a hat and borrowing and using one several sizes too small, is quite authentic, and I think that I am right in saying that the lender was Sir Farrer Herschel! (afterwards Lord Chancellor) and the borrower no less a person than Mr. Gladstone.
J. Howarp Srooxe.
Chefoo, June 6, 1922.
+*.We cannot speak on the incident in question, but surely Mr. Gladstone's head was unusually large. Could some reader inform 1—Ed.
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