UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 83, 15 October 1879, Page 2

UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.

- :,; ■ .' " - -T-- -'• - *i- 'i. ii .." "A chiel's amang ye takin' notes - An' j faith heel prent' -em.- . 7j- '%■:'■& 'i-^y 'V - :'; -V - A great fi}Bß is being made" about the Hon. John Hall, but I dp not see why there be.as he has his laurels and hqnpjts ye.t: fto win. He has more ambition . than ability', ;a^ far more'heiU-d^^ jihaii;hiiwiis; j HS has \ one thing iii hw favor, BESPEOI^ " nothing mqrerrfthe' new' 'ikindof Vbevil-wor-ship which prevails m this fee'ntuny. ■'■ It is* the cloak that is thro\rtii oyer the, Golden Calf, so that, men shall not see what they. ; 1/ Y7Y77V7. . ! '7..-' . IVbelieve, the^^hoh.' member for ; (3feraldine,Mr. Wakpfield 'has befeii teitibly- exc'rcisißd at the obliquity of vision displayed' by' Mr. VHall mr failing to recognise /his i abilities^ when forirjing a ScratchTMatch, ': pi StiiUborn Ministry,^ still as. there, is one portfolio on the bait, he is follo'wingVthe Micawberiah tacfcics-^aSid '•' wSiting fbr;s'('l^'ethingi , to turn uq." There are two. Canterbury, men who have claims -toibe. Jield:^ ds3 ltjgisla- ] tors before himself— -I i^ean Montgomery and Moprhouse, ; bU- 'fl^F' CPurse^ the-^ former cannot be wo'6ed^s6^ Setting aside his untru.tworthiness-7-W^efield stands a poor show for-^hejaooncy,, „We -have got this lehgth-^-that we" niust have' honesty "iii bur politicians, how . that the people havP^ .shelved and W^hitta^er-'" the two At^ j torneyß "Y:as the ,. Saturday t Review many years since designatedthe men' who led the' Ministries of >tjeyif^ei^nd. of society require new men, .and. when 'the hour comes the man is generally to the fore. , P '7YYY.Y^.'Y J'7;Y There must be -something exciting ih : this game of politics for men/ fo'o'ccupy positions from^ yfhich' they ; can? he pelfjed with mud by every hireling scribe.'- '-Therk is only one mode, for a sensitive 7 politician; tcr adopt, — aqdthatis *' never to, r§ad bkb. papers." : -rßut [. (_ eff,^^are ; h.deed v^ho snch a habit. One thing, appears worthy of note ix\ oi^r Colonial Press',- and that is— that our they gp, npYer ttiink^ ' they are doing . their ; duty npleas- they; are, " slating "o- some; one.'' ;ori other. . i Even " leaders " are filled with tirades of abuse," showing how inappropriate they are named, the object ofiai leader 'being 'to;: " lead/ ; the- . people 7 -mtoi the traiij: of tliovight they' should adopt, B.ut to this vile habife'iof abuse truth is sacrificed toroiihd a para- : graph v(ith.aiiiepitheti, and propriety; ip/iig-.. nored for the purpose of introducing an epigram. The Timartt Seraild ia an excellent example pf the claasi abuses every one m the'Cblcihy m : public, save the hon. member for Geraldine. ■,■. Were r I ( m the Premier's place,. I would let future generations do and-suger, ej-e I'wouid stand the amount or detraotipiji and virulehcaV daily i heaped upon, -his ihgacL .... ;BnJ it seems td strengthen on it— it amqses the writers, and not tpjhurt him. '•"■ •".> . And apropos <3$ journalism m Wellington ■ jthere can be. i^q do"^Bfc that the Chrdnicle m'aif egts more, vigo/than any other papercourse though it; may. be. : Its politics ai*e"redr and some of its .sentences almost _ " blur.}" but then you always have, the .ad- j vantage of knowing exactly, what the. v^riter : thinks and means— a very great advantage, ! for a pap.ervCqnducte.d- without belief is like faith withput works— :deadV" The Times lies according to, ifcja old plan; and ever has done so Bince it; ; wa^ debauched by Yogel j there : is something to r^d every day^ m the New ' Zed'ander., \i any man can be found with patience to read. what "t says ; while, the Post has got into a Church garden tone, Suffice, ' it to say that there is np,t a decent paper m '. the Empire City— at least that, is my opinion* ' The Colonies fast drifting into the same religions chaos which has existed m America for many y§a.rs, and upw any iti- ; humbugVwhd Can talk a jargonwliibh * no one can inter pr^t, is sure of a good re- ; ception. Following upon the steps of that ■ clever Pressman^ but At heistical spouler, Charles Bright, Mrs. Har.dirii;e Britten has. appeared upon the scene, and has been gulling the so-called believers m Free Thought m Wellington. Twenty-two years ago, ber fore the lecfcuress had. blossomed into matron, I heard the Jady— ui\der tb.e. namQ qf s

Miss Emma Hardinge,— hold forth.- from a Spiritualistic platform m New York, alaug". T^ith^MrsY^ Cora Hatch, and others of the same " religieus persuasion." She can talk well— c-most women caUY-bnfc she has-, oa©^ rshe has a husband that cannot, lam told that time haS ; V trifled with th*.. charms of fair Emma, and m the sea*? of. years which have passed I would scarcely -Rec9gnise_my old friend m an aged femv--nine edition of Dr. Can?. All his plati tudea, and imperfect knowledge over ag_iu.; "She talks about a new dispensati6h;"but'*tislt- - not her hearers what that dispensation is^ 'whither it leads, qv .what it means. Tinfc-. ling brass, and; souudirig symbiai; but. nb-;^ - ' thing mora, but as talkers may and must [live as well as thinkers and wnters,: I sup- ;. pose the woman must t live like other -pea? .pie— particularly as between her : smd r fte*!husband the usual conditions of ip aiulen.ance;are;reserved. — her brains Br.ppdrting : the oonmiissariat.. •'"*'' nyuYi •■ --,?: j- ... .. A: .. „. . jWe hear a great ;doal at; the expense of tha jf'^Q-reat Unpaid ?'n im the colonies, but my • .experience hajj been that Colonials Justice 7 •isfthe pure article^ while fhafc dispensed by Miir English| brethren^ ;y^y 3^fteh7tih# < yf pra^of B^namagen. ; I -hai^ s^n'mpv^ Mfehan one J.P! m New fcetdaVd *wm<irae_y ; ; consign the shivefmg -who was a wcoveyy "-^-to the for , t ttwenty-four. Hours, yet when- he had .done :hiß dvjty as a magi^taate r he was "jhere tb do ' it' also as a man.'ahd before -leaving, the .gaoler had a small fund m his possession to give the poor 'devil some medioaVl comforts." ,Qf course soiiie pqris ■» vrill he shocked at the qpmprise between head arid heart, but t imagine even : that picture is more accepta- •.*■ We than the English reverse, which we clip, from a home paper. A poor fellow employed m some factory htjs mpt with an accident which necessitated the amputation of both arms a little below they armpits. •When discharged -from hospital, he "threiir: X himself upon the public and begged. Society was- outraged, the law. -ijact 7pecn.broken, and after arrest, upon being brought before ; a couple of J. 5.8., he was severely* lectured for' the epormity of ma 'offence, told l and fchat^he should endeavor, to, ge| his hying honeß .jjj. , many with : both arias ....'have io. Vwage|Bheh a desperate struggle at home for,, ai bare subsistence, how was this .armies* fellow to do so ? 7T don't knowv.7 I gireVit '-■ : UP;?>.''." ■ : -.""'.. - I' 1 V '"A-Z^yl:*',