HUMBLE PIE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 671, 8 April 1869, Page 3

HUMBLE PIE.

To the Editor of the llawJce's Bay Times. Sir,—Some few weeks ago the Superintendent of this Province,—in answer to a deputation representing 200 householders of Napier, wishing his Honor to call the Provincial Council together at his earliest convenience, such being one of the resolutions passed at a public meeting on the Education Kate,—gave the deputation to knowthat he would do nothing of the hind. The old proverb holds good, that "those who live longest see moot." Now we see his Honor (late General Government Agent) seeking, by the same means as the householders adopted a few weeks ago, to influence the Governor to call together the General Assembly. How can Mr M'Lean or his friends expect that 100 or 200 names—a very email portion out of 200,000 inhabitants of New Zealand—will have any weight with his Excellency ? The way some Napier politicians speak would lead people at a distance to imagine that the Province of Hawke's Bay was the whole ot Zealand. How Mr M'Lean or his friends could Jiftye the presumption to try

such a wild scheme, and to seek to bring about a meeting of the Assembly by petition signed by just one-thousandth part of (he population of the Colony of New Zealand, when he would not, when called upon by half the householders of Napier, call together this little petty Provincial Council, is more than even the mind of "John the £hrewd" could conceive.—l am, &c, Anti-Obnoxious Tax. Napier, April 6,1869.