LIKE HIS IMPUDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 199, 30 July 1883, Page 2

LIKE HIS IMPUDENCE.

(to the editob of the stanbabd.) Sib,— ln the Times of last Friday appears a letter purporting to. come from a f' Fireman/' thougtt it is pretty clear the signature should have been something else. In it the editor of the Times is buttered op for attending lie Biigide meeting. Well, Sir, I have seen a good deal of the editor at various meetings m this town, and I must say his style does not at all please me. His eonoeit is so irrepressible that it shows itself whenever he takes any part m a meeting. Whenever he enters the room his very manner seems to say, " I am the editor and J.P., and all most yield to me." Such n demeanour is very objectionable. I wonder that he haa uot been " sat npon " more often than he has, though I hear, that on one or two occasions oi late, he got properly snubbed. If the Fire Brigade Committee is wise, it will submit to none of tbis kind of interference or dictation. He may be as pompons as he likes when lecturing an unfortunate drunk from the Bench, or presiding at a creditors' meeting, and seeking to bamfoozle the poor debtor; ov wielding the baton at the Choral Society (what fun 1) ; but he must learn that at a public meeting he is only the same as any other member of the commuuity, and must not put on any oi his aits and graces, or he'll have to be taught better manners.— I am, &0., Jack i v the Box.