MR YOGEL ON SIR DAVID MONRO.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1291, 18 September 1872, Page 2

MR YOGEL ON SIR DAVID MONRO.

The honorable gentleman has been pleased to read a long description of my character, very well drawn up, no doubt, but just the sort of thing you would get from a phrenologist, if you consulted him and paid him afee of- half-a-crown-j-you would get a better one for ss, and a still better for a little more money. All the remarks about anti -British tendencies would have suggested themselves to the character- writer when he considered that my name was a foreign one. The hon. member, no doubt unintentionally, paid me a high compliment by saying I was fitted to be a Minister of Russia. I think the Colony might very well be proud if it could have on these benches gentlemen fit to be Ministers of such an Empire ; but I mest altogether disclaim the compliment the hon. gentlemen paid me, for I am afraid I am far from having the qualifications necessary to a Russian Minister. As for the hon. member for Waikouaiti himself , I may say that I have had opportunities, during the past nine years, of observing his course of conduct ; and I know this— that unless he has very much altered, he lives perpetually in an atmosphere of exclusiveness ; he has no sympathy whatever with other hon.. members of this House, and none whatever with the great mass of the people of this Colony ; and no long time has passed since he thought a great deal more of the sheep in the country than of the people. It is very long since he would hare been pleased to see the whole of the Middle Island comparatively unpopulated. His character may have very much altered lately, but we require a far stronger proof of that alteration than we have yet had given us, before we can, by our votes on this occasion, place that hon. gentleman ■in office. Were he placed there, it would not be long before he, on Tihe one side, and the Colony on the other, found that there was an utter want of sympathy between the two. - ' -