AN EDITORIAL NOSE VINDICATED.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 429, 31 August 1880, Page 3

AN EDITORIAL NOSE VINDICATED.

Tho following account of the collision between Simonacn'a Froliqucs and Mr Wickham, appears in the Free Lance of July 17 : —A gang of howling hoodlums, known as tho Froliques, came trooping to this office, instigated wo believe, by some of tho " Evening Larrikin " people. Till we have further evidence we acquit' Enery of being guilty of such a contemptible action. But to our hoodlums : Some six or seven of them interviewed us, and wanted to know how we became aware they were " Yankee trash " without having seen them. We did our best to explain that it was our business to know these things. Thoy asked if an "ad.'' would make any change in our opinion. We informed them that, having seen them wo could not alter our opinion. They referred to their big houses and favorable critique?, but we declined to be influenced

by anything but our own opinion, Jand informed them that we ran our own Jconcern in our own way. We confessed that we considered them nothing but '' Yankee trash." When wo say "Yankee trash" we don't menu to say that the Americans have no good shows - q- ite the contrary. The Yankees have superior articles in this line, but tiny have the shrewdness to keep them at home, and let tho trash travel. The Aucklandites drive all their good things away, and open their arms and purses for any trash that comes along. Well, our Yankee friends got r oisy and unsavory in their language, so we had to order them out —and they went; but as they did not appear satisfied, and talked about pulling noses and what they would do for us if they had us in America, we invited them in again, but they did not accept. We have since heard via Wellington and Thames (which looks very bad for 'Enery) that they kicked, spat in our face, palled our nose, &C. There WBS certainly enough of them to eat this Pelican boots and all. They may have done all this, but they did not let us feel the operation, not that we should have said anything; oh, dear no, we aro the meekest individual that ever sat in editorial chair. We should Bimply keep our hands in our pockets and let 'em do it. Perhaps they will call round to-day and take a piece of-our conk to show their friends.

We said we were meek; so we are* But we can't stand paying three or four shillings for telegrams in reply to inquiries after our nose ; and if the man who wired to the Press about it introduce,! himself to this office, his proboscis will want pulling by the time wo are done with it.