Mr Shepherd as a Parson.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 248, 11 August 1874, Page 7

Mr Shepherd as a Parson.

(Evening Star Wellington correspondent.) A paragraph in the Guardian has exercised not a little the member for the Dunstan. It was read carefully by him, and it is even said he remarked to a friend—l wonder whether it would be the member for Tuapeka—that the cup was nearly full; that the last feather had almost broken the camel's back; that another malicious statement wouid almost induce him to enter an action for libel against any transgressor of the fourth estate, and mulct the offender very severely, either in coin or liberty. " Penny-a-liners," as he terms them, must now beware. There is a rumour of the hon. gentleman going into holy orders, adopting a clerical life. After the rumour got current, the following was found in Bellamy's :- "In vain to Ministers Shepherd beseeching « Tries hard and fast for a snug little place ; Returning to Lunstiu men say he'll try preaching, Turning children of Tinkers to vessels of grace. He thinks it will pay, and be better than hanging . To skirts of a party who hate him like smoke ; Rut to me the brave T. L, S., in pulpit exhorting, A wolf in sheep's clothing to him were a joke. But perhaps, after all, if the thing really happens, It could hardly be easily bettered ; T'were worth a ' Jews'eye' to hear him expound The Gospel according to Shepherd."