A NEWSPAPER SLUR.
[To the Editor.] Sir, —I see in one of the Napier papers, commenting on Lord Hindlip's cleath, a decided slur on the -J.P.'s of the colony. To people who are residents of Hastings country and who know thefcaper it will be taken for what it is worth ; but to strangers, who perhaps might take it for a respectable journal, I say it is a decided slur. I see no more barm in a benevolent brewer being made a baronet than in a grocer (from tying up halt-penny worth of stickjaw, &c.,) becoming a newspaper proprietor ; 1 am sorry to say I can't say a benevolent newspaper proprietor. One thing is certain, the brewer just dead was benevolent enough to publish in the form of a balance-sheet all moneys entrusted to his care. However, what's the good 111 talking ? Silk purses arn't made out of sows' ears. —I am, &c., A NoaSEWQOD SUBSCRIBES.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 374, 16 July 1897, Page 2
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155A NEWSPAPER SLUR. Hastings Standard, Issue 374, 16 July 1897, Page 2
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