Circumstances Alter CasesREID (shrieking): “What! the Gag?”
DIBBS: “Don’t call it ‘the gag,’old man; when your party adopted it they only called it ‘the cloture.’”
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| "Been There Before" | Hop |
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| N.S.W. Politics | unknown artist |
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| One Man, 20 Lawyers | Hop |
One Man, 20 Lawyers,N.S.W.: “Is this what you call a short, but effective measure to abolish Plural Voting?”
PREMIER: “It is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ’twill do, won’t it?”
N.S.W.: “Do, oh yes! It provides for ‘One-man-one-vote,’ indeed, but it will take one man and 20 lawyers to get a vote in edgeways.”
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| “A Quiet, Simple Life” | Hop |
“A Quiet, Simple Life”“Sir Henry Parties says he will be content with the position of a simple member of Parliament .” —Daily Paper
Reformed Politician:—“No, boys, be your leader. I am too old, too feeble, and too disgusted. I want to lead a quiet, simple life—and, besides, there’s no more money in the Treasury.”
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| A Fresh Field for the Social Gimlets | Hop |
A Fresh Field for the Social Gimlets“The suffrage once fairly attained for women, their first work must be to amend the marriage laws, or, blasphemous as the words may sound, do away with them altogether... No woman, until she has known love and achieved the dignity of motherhood can be thoroughly complete.”— Mrs. J. E. Ashton, before N.S.W. Woman Suffrage League.
Playing for SafetyThe East Sydney Foreign-trader prefers the devil he knows to the devil he doesn't know.
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| Addled | Unknown artist |
That Troublesome Infant ContinuedGranny Dibbs: "Now, then, Johnny, get the bottle filled and he'll be all right."
New Treasurer: "Yes, that's all very well, but where's the milk to come from?"
Granny Dibbs: "Oh, you'll find plenty in the Customs House, and I've noticed lots of cows running at large on unimproved lands all over the place."
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| A Troublesome Infant | Hop |
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| Two Men in a Boat | Hop |
Two Men in a BoatN.S.W. Colonial Treasurer: “Look here, old man, I don’t think she’ll float much longer.”
Premier: “Nonsense! Keep on baling; I never knew her to sink yet, and I’ve used that baler for 40 years.”
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| A Live Body | Hop |
A Live BodyIn the N.S.W. (nominee) Legislative Council last week the President fell fast asleep in his chair and was approached by two medical members who evidently thought him in need of assistance.
MEDICO No.1 : “He is alive?”
MEDICO No 2 : “Yes, alive enough for this dead place.”
The New FinanceNo. 1: “What’s the use of crackin’ cribs? Let’s get the patronage of a Member or two and start a bank of deposit-paid-up capital four millions!”
No 2: “Yes, and we’ll give twenty per cent, for deposits fixed for ten years.”
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| The British Auxiliary Squadron | Hop |
The British Auxiliary SquadronYoung Australia: “So you have come to protect our property, our mothers, our wives, and our sisters.”
Officer of Squadron: “Yes, don’t you know, and to marry the latter —if there’s—aw—money in it.”
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| Travellers’ Tales | Hop |
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| The Father of His Country—That Gentleman's Present Attitude | Hop |
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| The Situation in Queensland | Hop |
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| The Lion and The Lambs | Hop |