CREDAT JUDÆUS APELLA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 281, 3 June 1896, Page 2

CREDAT JUDÆUS APELLA.

An Auckland man has written to the Investors Review for March warning English investors against Mr Martin Kennedy who has gone Home to float a brewery company to take over all the breweries in New Zealand. The idea is that the Prohibition Party 11 must " win At the next general election. The brewers will " find their occupation gone," therefore, like the slaveowners in the State of Maine who when they found slavery was to be done away with, sold their niggers — and by law abolished slavery. Of course the brewers may also be " wise in their day and generation," and see with startled eyes " the writing on the wall " which foretells their coming doom, and hence the mission of MiKennedy. It is singular that this virtuous Aucklander should confine his efforts to the protection of on'y those people who, according to Mr Tennyson Smith, consist largely of " the well-to-do classes and the clergy," invest in brewery companies. Why not give a friendly hint to the " poor investors "in the " wild cat " mining companies being floated not only in Auckland, but in all mining centres in the Australasian colonies 1 There is as much virtue in the one course as in the other, but in the first instance possibly it suits the peculiar mental idiosyncracy of the warner to " condone for sins he has a mind to, by condemning those he's not inclined to."