BEARING THE BRAND OF THE CORPORATION.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 71, 3 September 1879, Page 2

BEARING THE BRAND OF THE CORPORATION.

In Mr. Fox's paper, published m Wellington, there tppearbd on : lji§t Friday a letter dated ifronr Feilding, aiid sjgned "Manawatu Elector," the contents of which are slightly at yariance with truth. The i.denthy, pi the winter is so nianifestly apparent, that. 'ye wi}l not insult the iuteiligeßcse of ; thpsif- who have read the documentjl)^; judging for th< j m. The first statement to which we .will taj^e exception is the fotlojying : — Tliere are .three local papers: piiblis3t.ed m the district, but each one of .them only circulating m their own ;iinnißc!iate neighborhood, and .thjerpfore' reflecting the petty .parish polities of thoir pwji .loeaiifyi but neither of them running J;h^owghoiit the whole .district, so, that a refjident" of one end of thp County is ipore likely tblearp from a Wellington paper' the "viewS- or opinions of the other end ? than he is from either of the local papers, As the writer of the letter is tacitly .acknowledged to be ,th,e ,forger pt the editoral thunder boltp— when eyer 'any such do appear— we adiuit tjijifc he is an authority upon the states of the jjjdrnal I published m the township froni' which i the letter ■; is dated ; .; and ajthpvig)i we I must admire his candor, we pity the paper which is thps valiied by the man who has the free use of its columns m which to f '.-grind ihis many axes." Weir, if the tool made use of, be a.willing one and he is satisfied, we haye no cause to publicatipn\of;|ieliberatje;:ii»:isstAtenien'ts with rrgard to Yourselves, and l' ; refjii.se point blank, to be put upon the lpye.l of a paper abpnt which its own editor writes so disparagingly;. the, gentleman pe.nned his letter to. .the Wellington Times, and stated that this journal only circulated m its immediate Jneighbor;hood," he deliberately wrote what ht, knew to be-- — well,; not quit^ correct. He knew that this journal not only had a wicle circulatipnin Feildipg,. but also that a gentleman of long iiterary experi.ence and high- attainments was m .permanent charge p£ that,tpvr.nship,permanently residing there, with f\ill authority to edit prially />ip.pn j,fcs wants, to report, its iioVngs"jiand : ; to : guard it s - interests/. rW&_ presunve 1 ' the "reason why Tlie Teilding pajjer, is held m the contempt acknowledged by the correspondent j^s, that, asits.editpr isthe'seryant pf the Corporation, a yefy. small portion ■of his time can bedevotecf to his editorial duties ; his intermittent articles, being naturally warped. and bearing tlie brand *of. ; tlie ; Gprjoprationj carrying no weight with them; arid last }y his efferts at t best .are but those of ' a, tyro 'and an .araat our; wliose^ . •Tiews lppk no ", f ur th er .than self interest. .Apologising, for de.yoting so much space to 'sl a personal .matter we will Jhpwgiy© the scribe's opinion of Mr. HALcbMßE,.and tliose | whp -have'; heard vitha^ gentleman upon the platform, must admit; that if the letter were not. wriließ; by ftfr. HalcpMßE, iticertainly must have .Been by : his alter ego . , Speak i n g. of the Feilding can di d ate the wri ter say § :.— ,' long. residence. pnfth is poast has given him a .more, intimate knowledge, of; all parts of the iiifevior of the country than any other map,; than I can riatne.. It is tyreiity : uve rears, sini-e he' iirstsettlea. in the neighbor- ; hood • he" has travelled inucli inland, and lias seen with li is o-wp eyes •'the'eountiry that lie \yould ask 1 Parb'aihent 1 to open 1 : Hp with roads and a >ra'lway. ' He lias had great ci- . perience m successfully set! ling many hundreds of people on the iand-undev a "system of deferred payment, and m -'making roads t h rough , b ush lands ■ bef orp placing settlers on iti He had been many years Provincial Seer^twy, adiMinisitering the > government of ;the whole provincial district, and while; m that capacity be must, have learned where, _l;o findthe strijigs t)iat a member of Parliament must pull JfhetWill m promoting m Parliament titie'locaV interests of his district. These views are so well understood' here ihaVmany persons who have bee^n hitherto personally opposed to Mr., Halcombe ar^ siippprtiiig ' : : him at this, election. " ' . '■■'' i ". One could imagine, from the similarity of language that f he writer of the foregoing had done nothing more than take our report, of Mr! Hai#osibe'B speec.li at Palmerstpn, andl clip biit. his selfglorificatipn. upop that occasion for reproduction;. We li aye rip pb jection to this belauding_of his Chief,' but we certainly do object, iii the interests^ of truth, to the following cpntprtioii of facts. The writer . alludes ' Ho Mr. Skelson's me ; qting;Bt Feilding, and we presume being afraid to entirely pervert . the truth, as there were so-many witnesses present, has concocted the following garbled report; ! ' ' : He admitted that the }ate vote of want of coufirlenfte agftinst: the; Grey GoYemment ..was. » ripji.t decision, but thaVhe! approved of the policy injtheGoYerjVor's speech, and woyld eupport-.any that woiild endeavor to carry oilt iliofc policy ;' but "Mr. Snelson was stuck to like a leech by his perpeYering qne.«T.ioner tintil lie gave a dire(;t re])ly, showing that heSvpuld. yote for 'the Grey Government if elected to' Pailiamcnt. The " leech " so eulogistically referred to was a fellow-servant tp the writer m the pay of the Goiporatipii, and we must admit that, he did the-^oik of his master well— the task being a persistent repeti-., tion of tl|e,saine gucstion after it had, been answered again arid again. Why was it tbat " Manawafu Elector" did not aTail himself of the local editorial colunins under his control, ins tea 9 of sending his unyeracious statenient to a journal which not twenty persons m the County ever see P 'Is -It Ih at cv.en .; that limited circulation is greater than Ihat enjoyed by Ins own particular oiyauP Or was it thai he wished to ber.d it where there would be a small chance of its being seen an^[ cputra,dictcd P