The Opposing Petition..

Manawatu Herald, 1 June 1893, Page 3

The Opposing Petition..

: « There seems a general fatality about the petition lodged against the issue of the two new licenses. We have mentioned a few and we are assured of others, of a startling . nature, which will.be brought out on the day the Committee meets, and which we do not wish to refer to . until made public. ' However one error, a most absurb one^ made by the solicitors who drew up the petition, is worth drawing attention to, as illustrating how easily the best of men display a carelessness which they would not like be accused of. The incident recals to mind the lines in Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," 41 While words of learned length and thund'ring sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder . grew ....:.. That one email head could carry all he knew." After passing a " general knowledge " examination, it reads bad to find the word accomodation, minus an m written in both petitions. In our copy, appearing elsewhere, we have placed 'the customary number of letters, and it would have looked best so in the legal document mentioned. However, '« Tell it not in G'ath ; publish it not in the streets of Palnferston." The error in the spelling brings • forth another view of the petition, which has been signed by one school- . master and four clergymen, all learned gentlemen. Did. they, not kribw how to spell accommodation or did they not read ■• the petition they so readily signed ?