The Parke'S Libel Action.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 2

The Parke'S Libel Action.

« The following arc extracts from the article complained of: — After evading his creditors for thirteen months Sir Henry Parkes has returned- to the colony, and -of course a few of his followers gave him a feed. Sir Henry is a man who never m his life paid anyone if he could help it. If he made a man's acquaintance it was solely for the purpose of borrowing money from him, or getting him to endorse a promissory note, which the unfortunate invariably had to pay. He always deserted Ins old friends, no matter how good, for new ones, and has altogether been a man unworthy of confidence. Of course, it was hardly to be expected that he could allow such a chance of attacking Mr Stiiait to slip from him. How amusing to hear the political charlatan who had neglected his legislative duties for.thirteen months say that the present Ministry had degraded political institutions, and that for' the first time he (Sir Henry) was ashamed of this country. We do not know so much about his being ashamed of the coiuitry — but we i do know that the country is tired and ashamed of Sir Henry Parkes. Just fancy the crawling, miserable sycophant, who listened at the cell door to hear the ravings of the madman O'Farrell, being ashamed of the finest and happiest country under the sun — which it would not j be it cloven-footed gentry like Sir Henry had £heir way. Fancy the man who tried to "put up" the Forth Shore bridge swindle being ashamed of the country that has ted him, and winked at crimes for which another man would have been imprisoned. Only think of the man who took little Dr Benwick into the Ministry for the modest consideration of £500, talking about the Stuart Ministry degrading political institutions. A peevish child would have exhibited more manliness than Sir Henry did at the banquet, the only true sentence he did say being, "the country has had enough of me." True, 0 King Henry the Ninth ! Every well-wisher of the colony has had enough of you, and of the miserable clique who have been at your beck and call, and whose only chance of ever getting into power is by setting class against class, and prostituting everything that is sacred or manly.