THE Manawatu Times. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1879. THE RING-TAILED SQUEALER.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 46, 4 June 1879, Page 2

THE Manawatu Times.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1879. THE RING-TAILED SQUEALER.

" \Yordsiiw thing*; ar.tl a drop of ink fulling likedew upon a t^ioaght. jk-ott^ees' t'i:-t which make thousands, perhaps Million.-. x,hmk." {

Alas, wliat availing ' ofE was tKere ! Those who perused tiie bumptious bathos m its last issue, ju.st listen to its feebte e#prt wl^en oonipelled to?*eat the leak." dov^n a .'peg or twb/|it says i—U'-'By an error jt wa<j statedin^a recent article. on the -position of the county, that the tipper. District ladings have' a revenueof \yhereas it amounts to. J|4OB?. As the mistake occurred quite inadyertehtly, we of couiise vrillingjy correct itl" : ,Qh, of courije so j ijttt still, notwithstanding. its mistake about such q. ?ra?}.ll item_ as $1000, with charapteristig pppjness }t proceeds to jirgue on the principle that two 4nd^ tvvjo^niakje " c sjeyen, that its figures are q^uite cbifi ; eci. *' Quite inadventeqtly,'"it says ; just so. But is it not striinge that s^oh an eminent authority upon County matters could have made such an egregious blunder while having at his elbow that Protean prompter "Fox top," '* A Working man," « S. ThynMe," . or whateve.v other alias that very' prolific bi^.t qnreliable w^pter, would wisji to be known.by. It will" nob do," Mr. Squealer and the hand that penned th^psieudo-treßchant tirade was nothing elije|or the time, being. than a <terita^^ cat's-paw," a state., of tnatters whioh we. will proceed to prove- The little dat^was proyided by thu very clever geiVt|eman alluded to above, the error ,iv addition was your own, and con sequeritiy''with9v|t having the slightest knowledge, of. what the reyehue op the indebtedness of either district: was^ yoi; argued; .iipon your error, V vajf ed clog gent, ; and : . frothed furiously haying the sligHtes j ide 4of "what you wprp writing: about. ! tfa4 you h.ac( tlje gpod >sense to baye merely carried out the in,strucp . tioris of ymjr prbmpter, arid stopped fife tbVpubltcation <jf his figures,.you might have scrambled *pjit of the dilemma by. that yery : acepmniod^tiug iScapego^fcr— "% printer's eFrorrj' ,^»ut your 'blood ;was up, your .^ack> |jras e]eyat?d, arid your, caudal a/ppend.aget *emu;la.ting twirl of the tiger, wa* poised for.; a spring. But oli,' 'how ?a.dlj you judged ;your, yoi|r di^tanfle, as instep of capturii|g; your p;rey, yoi^; lie mangled ;anc\- bleeding at his feet, actvjjilly^siyjj:; the li- ; mitjed ability o| you, , ; a,r<3 ". p/>s : sessed to pr6clat^yp 4 u;r ujiq^ali Bed ig: : ot-^e-:-"iiiatte"ri'- upon ; which y<ju i^pres»a^d tp;be, anfauthority. j And now about another little '.matter- Ifou. evince a Uudable .M.thir^t for .knowledge" abou i a; certain my steridus Jletter^ IE yon / wjll ; peruse the; correspondencecolumns''of the journal /which ;<ireated the tliirst, we; w^ll ;gir,e. yon i the. benefit of tlje stpry v from beginning, to end. ;;v;-.^/- -v\.v;-y:.; : "" : - -' .' "; ; ■'