Poverty Bay Standard. Published. Every Evening. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1139, 5 September 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published. Every Evening. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1882.

Great is the wrath expended upon the Standard by Messrs. John R. Hurrey and W. H. Tucker. The former gentleman, who appears to be a sort of Balaam on a minor scale; after expounding a good deal upon asses, of which species of the brute creation he certainly ought to be an excellent judge, winds up with a canting and hypocritical quotation from a book with which his acquaintance is evidently small. To us it little matters what he says or does; be cannot succeed in blinding us, and hence his wrath. Let him go on with his incoherent babbling; if it amuses him it certainly cannot harm us. Then comes Captain Tucker, striving to mislead the public as to his business connections with Mr. Hurrey, who, unfortunately for him, has actually corroborated our assertion which Captain Tucker endeavors to contradict regarding the business linking Wi Paraone, Mr. J, R. Hurrey, and himself together. Regarding the “vials of wrath” which Capt. Tucker complains of, wo make no excuse, for the matter does not need any ; but when Capt. Tucker attempts to dictate to us what should be the conduct of a journalist and a gentleman, we tell him that he is incompetent to offer an opinion. The community in which the writer gained his experience is one of which Captain Tucker certainly would never form a member, for neither his birth nor education entitles him to the entree. Here we meet Capt. Tucker very plainly. We don’t suspect “ men, from the Borough Council down, of being bamboozled, hoodwinked, and humbugged ” (,o quote Captain Tucker’s words), but we most plainly accuse Captain Tucker of having, by cunning aud plausible distortion of facts, endeavoured his utmost to so bamboozle them. We shall certainly) for obvious reasons, carefully observe Captain Tucker’s caution as to buying and selling with him and men like him, and many others will probably do the same. We have exposed Captain Tucker’s vindictive motives, we have laid bare his plausible cunning, and we have refused to be hoodwinked by him. Hence his indignation I Certainly we look for an under current in every public step, in this instance, taken by that astute gentleman ; and we find that undercurrent in vindictive spite. So far as we are concerned we prefer his enmity to his friendship, for we ben eve the former to be genuine, while we should most assuredly mistrust the latter; still neither the one nor the other can affect us. We have effected our purpose completely, and the contemptible anger displayed at our havii g done so is simply ve exited * om tae authors of it. We have shewn the public that the so-called petition was a fraud and an untruth, and was got up by a private individual to suit private purposes of petty malice. Let Messrs. Hurrey and Tucker rest assured that their words will never stop our actions, be they ever so false aud misleading. The community of knaves and fools referred to by Captain Tucker as being the school in which we gained our experience is mythical: We have not the slightest recollection of meeting either Capt. Tucker or Mr. Hurrey in our younger days. Need we add that we have not the smallest inclination for so doing as we grow older. Captain Tucker rhapsodises about ‘ ‘ souls big enough to poise on the point of a needle,” and asks if we have never come across men possessing such. We can only say that any needle on which Capt. Tucker’s soul is ever poised will most probably be a RED-HOT ONE ! ! I