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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 40, 10 May 1879, Page 2

Oub me.tr^p'oHtgn.. : contemporary, tlje Post, piesumifig upon its position pf quasi mouthpiece ot the- Ministry, has assumed to itspLE th,e task of conU'adicting every 'statement which 4<fes .not emanate fpQin its.- pwu sanctuQU I >_3¥.e "wpuld feel iuclined to respect \\% \{tt^rances had our experiences of the a.sser-. tipns made by that jo.v^^nal m the past been of such a nature ajs. to entitle them to either reliability or credibility ; but seeing that of late" the Very.- reverse .-.is the fact, we object to tak.e a^s gospel the djctum of that self-constituted oracle.. It is but: a. very few da.ys since the paper ;in question took upon itself to contradict — upon what it declared to be the '' highest authority " — the rumor that J^f r. Chables M, G'BOMfliE had been apppinted to the .position "of "Deputy Land Ta.s Commissioner.- The contradictibu'was made. with,, such a toneof oraeu,l^r decision, that " most people imagined the JPast had aome'-founaa r tjon for its p,os.itiTe.asseution, and consequently the tumor was treated as. a .canard; hu£ woujd it be belieV-ed, it' no^y- turns out tha.t the well-informed, jpurmi-l and its " high authority " was "at feult. ' In a recent jgsue we Asserted that the bill: df.f^pe^s^s^ presented „by' 'Mr<i.;: Maokay : . Iq 1 '£}3QO, '#hei»eupon thw"- 'jbifrnlliitid* Cei'bertis rushes to. the f roijt, apd with characc 'te¥lsfFc ■ impudenoe, ., cqntradiQts -it^fi statement. In suopbrt^cif ;its''accuracy,' •i&ttsjiei-fed that " Mrl w^s not •a 'Native Cdmmissio°ne't,'nqr was he m t^e service of,. th.e Vi Gqv'er.u.n^i3nt;v «.^te simply lent his.aejpvices wheu requested 'without anyjstipulation asuta pay meat 1 ' ■ What imbecility ! Whyvi tift 4^y cßn^ J ; v str.uptjqnf.and context of tlie pontr^dictiqn, exhibits its unreliability. . .We^ neTer sai^ mV Mackat was in .' : t\£&'. service of the Government,' but. ..^e ' .in.%re.d,^Uhal; he lent his s.er^mes'.; when requested without 'a'ttV' 'atfpuia%oxi a,s.tq p^yn^ent," and hetice the fpreserftatiou; ot the littte" :J biir a*bbut l^siich^here was no previous arraugeiqe'nC;, The JRos t . say.s-. Mr.' iVTACKiT is " npt a; ;^Tativp Opn^mfssioner. Well, if by that it means th.^t he is not m receipt ol %-yearly salary, . we cqneede .tiae, but wheu it deqies. tbat ' tfiat genfcieman had a commission with carte blanche tp treat w t ith thq. : Nativ.e.s, it exhibits its. supreme ignorance, or SVaful' perversion of -f a'dts.. --'tfe;^pV- tit* old regirqe the Jfiost was as :cpnspjcupus for its worth and reliability. i(s it is . npw. nQtopious for, .^tgj w^ti|to£ i^. v'^d;|n^aw^h inanity.