Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1128, 22 August 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1882.

: irrepressible Captain Tucker is again to fore. Not content with having tried to boozle the Borough Council, fool the ndard, humbug the “Herald,” and bribe Hospital Committee into backing up his gns re the “Hansard” 31, 1881, matter, 3 now actually trying, to fool the public signing a petition for the carrying out is object. We do not intend that he 1 suceeeed, however, for by the first outg mail to Wellington we shall forward ccount of these proceedings to Ministers’, ig them a fair insight into what the erty Bay people really think in the inatThe public is not going to be saddled i Captain Ti cker’s probable expenses ewe can help it. Mr. Pelha.m E. lARDSon has been employed to obtain atures to this petition (asking that enies may l>e re-opened, and alleging foul on the part of the Government by inring with the police in suppressing a of forgery) at the very moderate sum of shilling I’Eii signature. A more kguardly transaction we never heard of. lever signed Mr. Tucker’s commission Captain or a J.P., ought to be made acnted with these disreputable facts, j for all—we me*.:; to stop it.