A Farewell.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 922, 2 March 1881, Page 5

A Farewell.

Mb Joseph Ivess, the well-known newspaper proprietor, thus bids adieu to the people of the Waikato;—*■ With, the present number the original proprietor of this journal severs his neatpaper couiieuUun with the Cambridge district, after a career in the Waikato brief but stormy. At the outset the \HLail was wqlpomed with a flourish of trumpets ; promises and pledges of the most distinct and definite kind were made, to be, as the event has J;urnqd out,. deliberately broken, and the dishonorable way in which some have behaved, enough to shake all faith in human nature. When the paper 1 was published, it was intended \ to make it a thoroughly organ of public opinion in this part or the Colony, but experience has proved that there are so many wheels vtithin -

weeels in the Waikato, so many dodges and. combinations, so many rings of all 1 kinds, that unless a paper is prepared ' to become, the slave of one, and all, its chances of success are slight indeed. There is in the Waikato a greater network of intrigue than is existent in any other part of the Colony, and those unwilling Or unable to enter the sacred cjrde, may as well give the district best, and try other fields. The rings of all kinds, the pawnbroking institution of a certain kind, do not want# 1 paper in Cambridge or elsewhere, unless they have tho power of pulling the wires, and the writors are puppets that will dance to any tune that they might think fit to play. In taking leave of the public of the Cambridge district, he does so with great pleasure, for the treatment he has received at the hands of those who chiefly control public affairs here has been of the most scurvy kind.