SUFFERING THE PENALTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 49, 26 January 1884, Page 3

SUFFERING THE PENALTY.

, ♦ ; Our unhappy little contemporary is m a terrible plight, and apparently does not know what to do to get out of the scrape over the Ward requisition It. Ik a case over again as of yore of "turning and twisting ;"-as it was on the West .Coast, is now, and ever shall he, <fee If ho could only coutine himself to the limits of truth .and fact, he would not- get. into tbese sad scrapes. It is ; no doubt veiy humiliating to have a written and printed . statement denounce 1 as "an outrageous falsehood." But ,why was he so foolish as to comiuii himsjelirtors.an incorrect assertion ] He inighjt'miTi} known he" would have been bowled out* fTn, last night's issue Restates [that the; numuscript of his defence was. submitted to Mv Snelson before being printed. This should be a'safe precaution when any. writer ieeb he cannot trust himself to speak the whole l|utlfp tWii^^a clear illustration of th'e linls jfi-dta tne-3ittle hykin? with ? which no doubt our contemporary was familiar m hjs-younger days ;~ ''■'■'■' He tliat does pne fault at first, And IteV'to hide it makes it "twoHe first of all tried to defend Mr Russell J.P. and his co-patriots m their action with regard to the forwrirding of. -the memorial direct to the Government j; buo.goes too far, and one of'Ja'is assertions is forth wuh denounced as falsehood." We pity our contemporary m his troubles, but he mnst~admitr they are entirely of his own seeking. If he is on the stool of repentance,, and is seeking to'-reform, it 'will .not -be our part to -^w-ish to" .break the bruised reed or q\iench the fjmoking'sftax. Let us hope his repent-, ancii is -sincere and genuine, w and that' there will be npjtnqre turning .or twisting, at leastJoi^ajbiine^and ihat heAce--1 forth he-'will -s^ek to shun 1 the' very' appea'raficTT'oTevil, lest his good resoliilutioAs fail, and he again suffer a. re:iapsb, wtt ::r. ■;.;;:■■ ':'■".■■ :^'