Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1890. TOO LATE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 November 1890, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1890. TOO LATE.

* — i Poor Mi*. Pivam has evidently been m>vh. i,v:ui!ilcd by cur criticism of hu r.:--L-<\\ at Foxton. He desired to }•.•,.,'• -pooh it at first, Ending that useless, he desired to avoid the day of reckoning, h^fc public opinion being too mush he has at last, had to fix a date and a public meeting to ex^

posu •• ihoir falhu-ie*." Mj- Piiani, above everything, admires .straightforwardness, he goes the length to urge it on his hand bills, yet utterly ignores that virtue himself . To '* be straightforward " on his part it would have been better had he selected some earli >i* opportunity to have challenged nir criticisms than just two days b< ore the poll. But then we should lave had a chance to have replied, aiid Mr Pivani has had enough of that. We inserted two leaders, on the 14th and 16th of October, exposing the mistakes made by Mr Pirani in figures upon which he built his dreams of a new finance, and Avitb. the exception of one letter to which we also replied, and offered room for hia answers to certain questions, put we have not heard from him ! Mr Pirani has admitted his connection with the Press, in some capacity, and he must therefore be aware that the columns of the paper in which the criticism has appeared, is the right place for his answer to be, yet he shirks the task ! He knows full well that though, with the help of a glib tongue, he can twist statements at a public meeting to appear as he wishes them to do, yet when fixed in type they are easy of dissection and exposure. Thus dreading the light, Mr Pirani is about to endeavour to effect a feeling in his favour by speaking once again ; but we can tell liim his little manoeuvre will be accepted at its worth, and that the polling day will let him know that in this portion of the electorate the voters have weighed him and found him wanting.