THE LATE MEETING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 670, 5 April 1869, Page 2

THE LATE MEETING.

To the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Times. Sir,—As one of those present at the decidedly noisy meeting got np on such short notice on Monday evening last by the great M'Lean clique, I cannot forbear intruding myself upon vou with a few lines to state my disgust at the conduct of certain individuals then present, who appeared to have come to the meeting, not foi the purpose of discussing both sides of an all-important question, but simply to use their powerful lungs, and still more powerful monkey-like and asinine qualities of imitation, to create a disturbance and general row whenever any gentleman opposed to the Great Clique (of members of which I was sorry to see the meeting chiefly composed) wished to state his views. I observed one gent in particular of military mien, whose (Cape) Colonial experience, and also I may add, whose common senae of gratitude to those on whom he depends for his daily bread and butter ought to have induced him to refrain from coming forward in any political demonstration I was indeed much surprised, on hearing the Billingsgate cat-calls and divers other diabolical noises of a like description, to per ceive that they proceeded from this individual. I fancied on further consideration that I had heard similar catawauling one evening some two years ago, when driving some refractory sheep along the Pekapeka, near the the Mangaone and Tutaekuri rivers; but I mistook it at that time for the howling of some wild cat that had lost its mate or met with some other domestic difficulty. Had the individual before referred to worn a white belltopper, after the fashion of his patron, I should have myself taken the law into my own hands, and have executed summary vengeance upon him by bonnetting him on the spot. As it was, however, I contented myself by coming to Dundreary's con elusion that the "fellah was fresh from the country, and decidedly green." —Yours truly, Anti-Clique. March 31, 1869.