SOOTHING SYRUP.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4127, 14 October 1884, Page 2

SOOTHING SYRUP.

[To hie Editor of the Daily Telegbai"' x i Sir, —Liberal Reform Association is x * doubtedly in name "a sweet sc ' ■•. " cymbal." The cognomen as ap" /• P Napier Avould lead one to beU' ?■, ? t-i -I c v • „v i ove that our Liberals of tho immediate T , , _ , no bettor than they should i Jt , -> that reform Avas the best *■ ".-„ a _ 0 J . l ee . n ' ' , vj• 4i ■ antidote that could be applied in their case , - T • A,, • 11 -n ( , T . As Mai or Atkinson would pay, "J ~ J ~ ,- T -n-r a / ■ quite concur. Mr James McAneny— x , r . ■, , ~ i ~ J to use a Maori phrase— has "spoken, o' , . . T j- , , as "full as a ' .■? d „ b(fln .& %*■ unde p rstand > tho statement a f ' Wlth , . . .ts he has made must havo •,, r " ,nt indeed. They indicate in an „ lV able manner that, were the solution ~. 1 .. -ical problems and the destinies of ~ _, jlony left in the hands of such men as . _° v _ , the colony Avould soon f_.ud itself , a uded in a place similar to that in which> oho Irish cabby proposed to land the Ling-' lish lordling, in " the nearest mud hole.'"'' Mr McAneny proposes to not forget his "happy moments" Avith the Association, inasmuch as he intends to keep for th_-t>ene-fit of posterity the valuable correspondence from the hands of the secretary. lam half inclined to believe that posterity will find those valuable records something like "Egyptian architecture," more complex than useful. Then Mr. McAneny groAvls at the Napier press being excluded from their meetings. Iv that the members exhibited much sense; they evidently, as Burns says, " see themselves as others see them," and, like Aviso men, concluded publicity was dangerous. There has also, it appears, been some money spent iv a most peculiar way—municipal elections, I sujmose—a sum something like £50. This sum I expect is the "unearned increment " arising out of tho Association's progress, and consequently is public property, and being spent in obtaining 39 votes for their pet candidate was, I consider quite a legitimate expenditure. Mr. McAmeny is therefore too hasty. I havo said Sir, about all 1 haA-e to say in faA'or of the' Napier Liberal Reform Association. I quite agree Avith the secret manner in Avhich the members conduct their meetings although it is not exactly creditable that°in these days of reform and enlightenment to find a number of men so thoroughly sensitive of their own childish vanity as to be selfcompelled as it Avere to hide their heads from tho gaze of the public.—l am &c. Mixed-Up. Napier, October 14, 1884.