BROTHERLY LOVE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1937, 6 September 1888, Page 2

BROTHERLY LOVE.

, The Wakanui people are having their little sensation over some paltry local matter and have taken to abusing each other right heartily. The "retort courteous " and the « lie direct " was the OTder of the evening at the meeting on Tuesday night. It seems a pity that those whose interests are so identical should not be able to conduot their local affairs with some degree of forbearance towards one another. It is impossible for any person wb« reads the report Q f

the meeting, or who has read previous correspondence between the contending parties, to judge who is m the right or ' indeed to see what all the heat is about. Both sides have been given, but nothing, save of a personal nature, has come out upon which to form a judgment. The district seems divided on a question of river protection, but the typical Philadelphia lawyer could not say that he understands what is the point m dispute and what it is which has caused a collusion between two parties of farmers. Such an exhibition of temper, and bitterness and feeling as was given on Tuesday evening is, unhappily, not rare. Wakanui should not bring itself to be classed among those districts which have an unsavory name for being quarrelsome and for furnishing reports of " rowdy meetings." Such meetings are far from elevating, and they only tend to breed bitter strife an?ong people who should be united m a common cause to do the best for the district.