The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, DEC. 2, 1882. THE CLERK TO THE COURT.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 48, 2 December 1882, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, DEC. 2, 1882. THE CLERK TO THE COURT.

♦— Messes Lethbridge and Fky, the two gentlemen who have undertaken to proceed to Wellington as a deputation to to wait on the Minister of Justice, in re the appointment of a Resident Clerk to the Court in Feilding, are making active preparations. They hare already collected a large and varied mass of information as to the condition and prosperity of the Manchester Block. It is the intention of the deputation to lay this before the Minister in order that he may have no reasonable excuse for refusing to accede to the wishes of so large a body of settlers. We can perfectly understand that the head of the department will offer every possible obstruction to the granting of the request, and such a line of conduct will be in perfect accordance with the traditions of officialdom. It will be the task of the deputation to impress on the Minister the urgent necessity which exists for him to exercise a little discretionary power, and overrule the dictum of his nominal subordinate. That this task will be a difficult one we believe, yet we hope that the efforts of Messrs Lethbridge and Fby will prevail, when backed by the members directly interested in the Manawatu, viz., the Hon. Walter Johnston, and Messrs Stevens and Wilson. With such support the reasons advanced should be doubly cogent, and the most pig-headed Minister persuaded to act reasonably, even against the opinion of a yet more pig-headed "Head of the Department." We again exclaim against the injustice inflicted upon Feilding, and the indifference displayed towards the reasonable request made by the settlers at the first meeting held on the subject of this article. Sometimes we are tempted to suspect lhat there has been some backstairs influence used by parties whose official positions enabled them to approach those in authority by secret and tortuous modes, only known to the initiated. If such has been the case, we trust to bring to light the names of the offenders, and hold them up as objects for execration and contempt. It is abiurd to suppose that a whole community will permit itself to be inconvenienced to satisfy the whim or caprice of one or two petty-minded individuals.