A PROTEST.
The Premier hints that he has a rod in pickle for Mr Croumbic-Brown. This “ special ” had been quoted in the House as an authority on the alleged abandonment, of a road in the ParihaKa swamp country, and Mr Hall replied to this effect; “If that is your authority, I shall probably have something to say to the House about Mr CroumbieBrown, before the session closes.” That i seems to us an unfair style of insinua-
tion. It conveys only one suggestion, that if the House knew as much about Mr Croumbic Brown as the Premier did, the House would know what an untrustworthy person Brown is. submit that this is not the treatment which a person of proper feeling would like to have applied to hunselt. The insinuation is not just; is not in accordance with honor; and ought not
to be parliamentary. We know nothing of Mr Croumbic-Brown, but wc do know, wo cannot help knowing, that the Prime Minister lias no right whatever to damn a man’s character m t u fashion. He ought to have made the ci ’‘6 ,IU '' uw j 11 1 jlhm’c be; and he ought to have produced evidence on the spot, or pledged himself that he was in a position to produce it if the House desired. This impeachment by inuondo is the more abominable, because it is practised by the foremost pattern of honor in the colony.
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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 538, 26 June 1880, Page 2
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238A PROTEST. Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 538, 26 June 1880, Page 2
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