The Manawatu Times. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1878.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 7, 16 November 1878, Page 2

The Manawatu Times. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1878.

"All is not lost!" A calamity has fallen upon the community, it is true, but it is not a national one ! and although Manawatu has been shaken to to its foundation, it is just possible it may recover the shock. The "■ engineer has been hoist with his own petard," and the curses, maledictions, and prophecies of ruin and disaster, "like chickens, have gone homo to roost." The contest is at an end; there has been a day of reckoning, and a terrible one it has been to the Clique. Mr Thynne during his exile, m the extremity of his anguish may well hold up his hands and say, " Save me from my friends." The result has shownunmistakeably that that innate love of fair play which is the Briton's greatest boast is still dominant, and that anything savoring of persecution will find no, echo m the breast of an Englishman. To show the strength of the Clique, a nonenity was trotted out •- to get that nonentity elected, no means was considered too disreputable ; truth and honor was sent to the dogs, and persecution usurped the place of fair play. Thynne was raised to the position of a demigod, with Dawson as his archangel, with a roving oommissioii to hurl the erring Loudon into the pit of obscurity. But they reckoned without their host. The tide turned, and placed upon an eminence, with the Herald ek their backs, safe m their own foolish conceit, the two spat forth their venom and spleen, little thinking that the object of their persecution had been rescued and earned into a harbor of safety* Had Mr Thynne acted m a generous manner he would not now be relegated to political obscurity,, but that he is so he need only thank himself and what has been called — correctly, or incorcorrectly, we know not — his. especial organ. We have been accused 6t having taken Mr Loudon under our Wing,. Well, if we did do so, our patronage would appear to have been somewhat beneficial. Can the Herald say as much for its protegS? With regard to Dawson, he never had the ghost of a show ; and now that there is no chance of his airing his oratory for the next three years, we will watch with some curiosity his newly-awakened aeal for the prosperity of Foxton.