PEOPLE WE MEET.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 248, 17 February 1875, Page 2

PEOPLE WE MEET.

The Meddleb. “ Put no faith in tale bearers." This objectionable genus is unfortunately to be found in almost all small communities, their imagination is very largely developed, aud are only happy in trying their neighbors’ faults, to find, in order to parade them to the world. The ingenuity they exhibit in concocting absurd reports without the slightest foundation, is frequently only amusing, but sometimes the uuruly member is allowed to have full swing in circulating untruths of a most serious and damaging character.

These reports are often times the outcome of ignorance, and if trouble is taken to trace their source, it will be found they have emanated from some small mind whose poverty of resource inclines his ambition to make himself popular at the expense of others. Perhaps some purse proud tinker, upon whom dame Fortune has been pleased to smile, is the ruling spirit, aud hero of the hour, to discuss matters eminently social, The question is, why has Jones left the district so suddenly ? T’was very wrong of Jones to go without consulting this gentleman, we admit, and Jones is fair game to be called in questiou ; sundry beers and like potations have enabled these philosophers to arrive at the conclusion that Jones has bolted, a verdict, about as correct, as if we charged these sages, with possessing brains to argue at all. “ Belter to slip with the foot than the tongue.” Another enviable character, (wo know him), is perhaps some sour, cross grained, ill tempered, love lost, specimen, whose Ishmaelilic position, has made his braiu a misery iu which to hatch evil, and ill will to his fellow man. From his high moral standpoint of excellence, he sits in judgment, aud at every opportunity showers his poisoned darts to wound, and with a satanic smile, waits with a fiendish patience the result; if not as successful as he anticipated, his bosom becomes a perfect hell, only to invent and execute fresh iniquities.

In matters commercial he has no adviser, his transactions are cunninglywrought out in his own short sighted and inexperienced fashion, and upon these he acts, circumstances prevent his trump card turning up; he is dissapointed at the failure, and seeks vengeance, by blaming everyone concerned buthimself, with good round charges of scurrility and abuse carefully avoiding actionable terms ; thereby preventing a plain declaration of the truth.