NAPIER SOCIETY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 966, 13 March 1871, Page 2

NAPIER SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE HAWKE'S BAT TIMES. Sir, —The editor of the Daily Telegraph. seems to be an unfortunate man—fall of trouble and fault finding. As a parent, and having a family of my own, I feel for him- -poor fellow ! He seems very bitter concerning Napier society. It is to be hoped no one has snubbed/ him—it conies, rather awkward at times. He says society is non est. Perhaps it is ; I begin to be of his opinion. One thing is evident—snobocracy is in the ascendant, and we are getting a great many amateur gentlemen and swells of the period in our little town-—young fellows who cannot be anything iu England, and would like to lead the ton

here. He says our girls won't marry (perhaps the poor fellow has been refused.) Certainly not, for it is getting so difficult to judge between the spurious and the genuine article. I would remind the editor of the D.T, when quoting the old adage concerning beggars, that charity commences at home. But it is getting notorious that when an amateur editor gets on the editorial stool he imagines himself to be the cleverest fellow out. It is a pity other people cannot think the same; but, as Shakespeare says, "if you have not a virtue assume one." I wonder the editor of the Daily Telegraph stops in Napier if he finds its society so uncongenial. I believe smart literary men can always find employment on the English papers. Surely he is not compelled to live here. The society of some people is, you know, missed, but not wanted. Things went on smoothly enough amongst us in Napier before we had an editor of the period, and doggerel poets have always been hard up for a job.—l am, &c, Smuggixs.