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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 188, 19 August 1864, Page 2

lo the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Times. Sik, —Te semper maximi feci, and it must therefore be;satisfactory to you to know that I’m a P, and therefore a very near relation to “ Q.” Now, I don’t mean to say that because I am a near relation ,to “,Q” that I know anything far from it. It is not customary for people to own their objectionable relations ; and really if it wasn’t that the close proximity of “ Q” to P renders the relationship undeniable, I should say very little about it. “Q,” takes great delight in abusing Golenso, and, as a of course, seeking; therebyjfo curry favor with the Government. This is fortunate, because it renders the question of identity the more easy to answer. Who is “ Q” P There’s the rub. Well, since that mysterious individual is not known with any certainty, I repeat my assertion, that he is a relation of mine. Now, the public must remember that, although I admit this, I do not forget the respectable saying that “ Where ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to be wise,” and I recommend them to rest satisfied with that. That part of the population of this Province which is confined to the labor of their hands and the wit of their heads may or ought to be thankful to Colenso for supporting their generally unsupported cause. The rich can at any time find a learned and able advocate. For my part, I could find, in almost any pot-house in Hawke’s Bay, a gentleman of mental capacity and classical attainments equal to “ Q,” who, for a sufficiency of grog, would write you down an ass, or anything else. 'But I have found that, being myself rather short of funds, I could not manage to buy my advocate at that price. I find that the “Q’s" require to be very drunk before they can write anything like sober English, and that’s expensive. In an able article which appeared not long ago in your paper, you observed that “it is easy enough to find puerile sophists for

tyrants’ tyrannies and gross vices.” What could by any possibility be more true or more to the point than that. “Q” is one of those venal creatures, 1 make no doubt., who, actuated by mercenary motives, attempt to write down anything and anybody. I myself am an old settler, and have seen a good deal of the management of affairs in this Province, and can well enough understand how it is that men like “Q" are brought forward to fight the battles of those who, having grown fat like worms upon corruption, and being afraid of losing any part of their gains or the increase of their gains, struggle hard to retain them and obtain an advocate for them. _ Does “Q,” or his respectable patron think that I, his relative P, and all my following, are going quietly to submit to have the marrow sucked from our bones that he may get drank and his patrons fat upon it without protest. No fear, friend. We work for our bread like honest and sober men, and do not feel disposed to find “Q” and his supporters with those luxuries in which they seem to take delight. You are right enough in questioning the present proceedings of the Provincial Council. The day is not far distant when we shall have to pay back in hard cash, each man contributing his share, those very riches which are now flowing so rapidly into the pockets of a few. It is a poor look-out indeed, that Tom, Dick, and Ilarry, who are working like honest sober men for their living and their independence, should have to subscribe towards paying a National Debt which has been squandered away amongst a few favorites of a corrupt Government. A country which owes its prosperity to a military expenditure is in a very precarious situation indeed. “It’s a dirty bird that fouls its own nest”— that’s true enough, but the fact is that that saying does not hold good in this case. The nest was clean enough till the 12 apostles and their followers got in to it, particularly “ Q,” whom, one would think, from his acquaintance with Sodom and Gomorrah, had lived there in his time, and voted against the ten righteous men. Claudius accusal machos. I am, Sir, Yours, P. Napier, 13th August, 1864.