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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 109, 26 October 1878, Page 2

Mb Eliot Wabbubton has broken out m a. fresh place, and the hermit-] ike seclusion to which he hrn doomed himsxylf appears to have robbed him of the little sense which ho formerly possessed. Wp were more charitably disposed toward the poor gentleman than ho is kind to himself, and wishing to save him from an expose generously

refrained from replying to or publishing his former unique production. Mr Eliot Wabburton, however,, could not appreciate our forbearance, and through the columns of the-" Wanganui Herald" sings the following pean of triumph over our supposed discomfiture :— " Sib, — Af ter devoting a long sub-leader to an attack upon me, your contemporary suddently remembers circumstances which he does not mention, but which. apparently made him discontinue the attack which he began so bravely. He says I wrote to you m " explanation," and that under the circumstances, •he can afford to be generously silent.' Surely he must forget that your paper circulates amongst all its readers, otherwise he would not try to deceive them them as to the contents of it. He also says that most of his readers will understand and appreciato his motives ; true for once l After comparing the boldness of the long attack m his last issue, with the brevity and cautiousness of the equivocal contempt for me suggested m this morning's issue they can not fail to do solus motives will still be appreciated, when people remember the attack which he made upon my brother, for corresponding with afWellington paper, and the complete but long contested triumph of the latter, and humiliation of the former. Having easily disposed of the only enemy | of Palmerston m tins matter, I will resume | the subject. In a town of the importance I and size of Palmerston, the duties of a constable consist chiefly m preventing r crimes by watching suspicious characters by day and night. The present constable haa not only to da this but also to serve summonses, levy executions, execute warrants of arrest, take care of the Court House, attend the sittings of every Court, . take care of prisoners while m the lock-up, take them to Wellington or Wanganui, look for dead bodies at Jackeytown, and for murderers at Woodville; - fight a brawl of drunken Maoris, muster J.P.*s to hold Court, and other men to form coroner's juries, and to do many other acts, which any body better acquainted with the subject then myself can enumerate. To go minutely into the details of the dangers arising from having .only one constable would be to bring those very dangers to pass, I will therefore refrain from doing 80, trusting that time will prove that the Manawatu Times has not power to prevent us from getting a second constable or else a separate bailiff. I am, <%&, Eliot Wabbubton. Palmerston North, Oct 19, 18*8. We have striven to make head or tail of what Mr Eliot Wabburton. is driving at, and can. come to no other conclusion than that Mr Eliot Wabburton haa all the wish and will to be viciously severe, but sadly lacks the ability ; for, we ask, would any sane man pen the following sentence, which finishes the first paragraph of his letter ? — " Surely he must forget that your paper circulates amongst its readers, otherwise he would not try to deceive them as to the contents of it." i ! ! The whole head and front of our offending against Mr Eliot Wabbubton lies m the following. Shortly after the present editor of the Times took charge of it, Mr Eliot Wabbubton had the conduct of a case m the Police Court, which he. did no£ gain. On the evening of the day of hearing, Mr Wabbubton rushed into the office m a most excited manner, denouncing the Resident Magistrate for the grossly partial manner m whioh he had acted, asserted . that he (Mr Wabbubton) had never gained a case before Mr WARD; that lie never would as long as that- gentleman sat upon the bench, and wound-up with a demand that the Press should expose the proceedings. As the editor had been m the Court during the bearing of the case, he informed Mr Wabbubton that he had been, struck with the painstaking sifting of the evidence by the magistrate ; that ho entirely agreed with the judgment 3 that he felt quite sure Mr Wabbubton was laboring under a hallucination with regard to the magistrate's partiality, and declining respectfully but firmly to attack My Ward for Mr Warburton's imaginary wrongs. The irate gentleman then said that if the Press would not take up the matter, he would never plead m Court again, withdrew m high dudgeon, since when we have been an enemy m his eyes. With regard to the [ grandiloquent observations anent his brother, " and the complete but long-contested triumph of the foamer.and humiliation of the latter," we have little to say. We had a little difference with Mr PrERS Warrurton, but our modesty forbids us to refer to its ending, and we feel convinced our readers need no enlightenment on the matter. For a gentleman who appears so jealous of the honor and good name of Palmerston, Mr Wabbubton has decidedly gone a queer way about defending it, and the long catalogue of crimes and disasters whioh his diseased imagination has conjured up is more m keeping with some Californian digging than a peaceful township m the Manawatu. A foolish fancy keeps him from appearing m Court ; would that another would keep him from appearing m print, for, if possible he is seen to greater disadvantage m the latter. Mr Wabburton was sad because we merely gave him a paragraph ; we hope he is now satisfied, a3 it is the lost line we will devote to either him or his eccentricities.