DISAPPOINTED ADVENTURERS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE COMMUNITY.

Kumara Times, Issue 1529, 22 August 1881, Page 2

DISAPPOINTED ADVENTURERS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE COMMUNITY.

[to the editor.]

Sir—No sooner are those sort of persons discovered at and accused of resorting to their old tactics than belOheS forth all the vituperative invective and venom that the accumulation of disappointed vanity breeding over corruption for years has been able to produce. Although possessing only “a certain amount of natural shrewdness,” never having attended a blue-coat school iu my life, I am sure that, notwithstanling all my other defects, I.will be excused for exercising that shrewdness ‘‘to the detriment of someone else,” even were he once a member of Parliament, when by so doing I will be assisting to remove one of the great*, est evils that has hitherto afflicted this community. Your correspondent “Truth,” who is the reflex of “Resi l dei't,” instead of combating the asset 1 tions set forth in my letter, resorts to a tirade of abuse mure befitting theWidow Moriarty the huckster, in her colloquy with o‘Oonnell, than that of an ex legislat ,r. If that be the manner onr battles have been fought at head* quarters, no wonder we have suffered so much. Although I am accused of choosing the “ most crooked path of the many,” it is admitted by “ Trdth” that; in my aim t have shot straight enough, so much so that “ Resident” fell mor* tally wounded, “Truth” receiving as much grape as will do him till this shot is fired. As “ Truth’* would hoodwink the public, he so much admires by endeavoring to turn the sub l ject matter into ridicule, and as he appears to have been behind the scenes, and knows more than myself of the ways that are straight, let him answer the following questions :—Who it was that, in order to be installed as SubWarden at the Kanieri, endeavored to sell his constituents by remaining at Hokitika from almost the whole busi 1 ness of a session 1 Who it was that sold his constituents, for a promise un l fulfilled, by deserting from the Grey to the Hall xMinistry ? Who it was that found fault with all and every Warden who have occupied the Bench in this district, and is still endeavoring to edge our present Warden out, in order that he could demand the price of his de l sertion 1 Until those questions are answered so as to convince me other l wise,-and until I know that our next Warden is to be selected from other than the ranks of disappointed adventurers—l will be content to “ ingra l tiate” myself with the gentleman at present in office.—l am, &c., ■ Scrutineer, Kumara, 22nd Aug., 1881.