Mr. Ohas. Fellows, the “ Master Hum- “ phrey” of the Otago Daily Times, has again obtained the ear of British public, through Fraser’s Magazine. We have read his article in that periodical for January last, but it contains nothing new. It is very nearly a reprint of his gross mis-statements in the Daily Times in 1872, which he foisted upon the Pall Mall Gazette last October. There is very Utile use in arguing with such a writer. He simply discards facts and distorts figures. We regret, however, that any reputable British periodical should insert the malicious misrepresentations of this person, who was of no account in the colony, and who appears bent upon earning an evil reputation at Home, rather than remain unknown to fame. Mr. Fellows is several years out of date ; and he misapplies the old statistics which he quotes. The facts are entirely against him ; but so much the worse for the facts. There is one honest politician in New Zealand, namely, Mr. Stafford, and Mr. Fellows is his trumpeter. We suspect the hon. member for Timaru will not care to have his party speeches quoted, as they have been, by Mr. Fellows to servo that writer’s purpose. But the evil is already done, so far as such a publication can at all effect Mr. Stafford as a public man. However, it is a lesson to politicians not to allow their imagination to run away with their reason during the heat of a party debate. Mr. -Fellows is, however, a type of colonist by no means uncommon. Having tried his hand at a great variety of things, and having failed in all, he blamed the country which had not the grace to recognise his merit. Whereupon he turned his back upon New Zealand, threatening the direst vengeance against it. Mr. Fellows has now done his worst. “Master Humphrey” was well enough as an obscure partisan writer in Dunedin ; no one in the colony paid attention to his lucubrations; but the case is altered when he reprints his romance of figures in Pall Mall Gazette and Fraser’s Magazine. Wo dare say we have not heard the last of Mr. Fellows. Most likely not; but when we do hear of him again, we trust wo shall hear something more to his credit than on the present occasion.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4365, 17 March 1875, Page 2
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