THE GRAND OLD MAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3886, 3 January 1884, Page 3

THE GRAND OLD MAN.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telequavii.] g IE) _It is not often that I happen across a copy of your morning contemporary, but my attention was called to its issue of vostorday, in which reference was made to tlio " Grand Old Man," in connection with the entertainment at tho Working Men's Club on Now Year's Evo. Although this woll-closorved compliment canio from the pen of a correspondent, I am sure both you and your contemporary will endorsu the sentiments of the writer. Few men in this town have taken a more prominent part in the great cause that now goes by tho name of that of the " working men " than Mr John Bogg, and I was glad to sco by the paper that ho is halo and hearty enough to ■join in tho innocent enjoyment of singing «< Auld Lang Syno " to tho outgoing year. There was one part of the correspondent's communication, however, that I am sure will jar on Mr Begg's senses, and it was that in which tho expression occurred " enthusiastically shaking hands with his humbler brethren." Mr Begg recognises no " humbler brethren ;" all men, so long as they are honorable upright workers in the human hive, ho looks upon as his equals. There is no hypocrisy in Mr Begg's liberalism; what ho says he means, what ho does is honest and above-board, and where ho goes ho is not ashamed of being seen. Wishing the "Grand Old Man" many happy now years of health and Btrongth.—l am, &c, A CotfOTEY LIBEEAL.

Taradalc, January 3, 1884. [We think our correspondent is laboring under a delusion, pardonable enough when tho obscurely worded paragraph to which ho refers is considered. The Herald s correspondent's "Grand Old Man," we take it is none other, than the Hon. J. N. Wilaou !—Ed. D.T.]