HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 91, 15 July 1879, Page 2

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.

TO THE EDITOIS OF THE MANAWATU HEUALD. Fitt; —ln tlie Book of Esther there is nar- . rated a telling story of how one with frowarcU ness in his haai't, and devising mischief, camo suddenly to an untimely end, intended by him for his enemy, being in keeping with the proverb thit "Ho that hideth hatred with lying lips, an.l he that uttereih : a slander, is a fool." j King A.haiiieru3 promoted ono Hainan to a public npnninhn^nt, and all the lung's j servants used to bow and reverence him, for so it had bean comm mded ; but it appoars that a man nunefl Mordeeai did not J bow, nor revoveuos him, and H iman is rep irted to h.\ve been in great wrath whe.i ho 1 saw this. For his own purposes he rai'le untruthfnl representations to King Ahasu ( ems, and obtained a deures to be used against Mordeuui and his enemies, also cer- i tain silver mjney wis returned to him which ho had undertaken to pay. Without loss of time, Hainan did all the destruction i it was possible, but kept his chief objjcf back for a tima. It is stated that the king and Hainan sat down to drink; but th.it the city was perplexed. Human determined if pi3sibla to bo rid of Moruocai, who had rondure I some j»"e it service to the king, by privately hinging him, ami hid made every prep -irafcion fer that little event by erecting a gillows of a gre.it height. But the king one evening reading over liU Chronicle cune upon an account of tho service ilord :cai hid do-ie him, and eiquirol of his * chamberlains as to how he had been requited. L When he was told not linghad been done, he c required tho services of one of his ministers, v Hamin, who was outside, awaiting to mention tho subject of his bain:* about to hang Mordeeai, was cilled in. The kins startled him by enquiring his opinion as to the best " manner to reward one whom he (the king) t delighted to honor, and it is said that Hi- c man could not imagine anyone more worthy than himself, and suggested a scheme. What must have been his surprise to find that it was for the very man whose existence he desired to quietly put an end to At a banquet the kiuij promised to grant any request made to him by his queen, and she being one of Mordecai'a relations, naturally expose 1 tho foul play. It , ended in Hainan being hung on his own gallows. , I hive b;en induced to re-produce this J little history for the bpnefit, and as a warn- j ing to the " Rockhay"-inan of the pre-ient , day, and if he will read the lesson hw will see that when the public elected him to the County Council, they expected him to assist the railway scheme to his utmost, and that he was not to make terms with the • Council in the hope to got his silver coins c returned, which he hid undertaken to pay, if he woull only delay the undertaking. It is just possible that the public, when reading their Heuald, will remember the aervices Mr Sanvin has rendered the district, and appreciate the necessity of sending one to assist him, and instead of employing tho " line " upon a gaUows to get rid of our Rockhay-man, thoy may yet take those modern day steps to sufficiently choke him from interference in public affiiir.s to the detriment of the district. Solomon has said, "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly" —our l Rockhay man must havo but few. n I am, &c, . I Am Klector. i Foxton, 14th July. '