Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1207, 22 November 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1882.

“ Parturivnt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus.” After many heavy throes, and what may be vulgarly termed a “painful child* bid,” Sarah has at last succeeded in bringing Into this wicked world—a mouse ! Well, Sarah I we certainly think you might be indictable for “attempted concealment,” at any rate you have been decidedly guilty of retarding the birth, and after all the mouse is a very sickly one. Still the fact of your being delivered at all, proves conclusively that you are not, as many of your admirers have asserted, past child-bearing. Let the air with joy be laden ; ring out the bells; and proclaim loudly from Dan to Beersheba that Sarah has got- an opinion I and one of her own too ! Will wonders ever cease? Snyder Browne got ten (bob) to one the best of it, for although Sarah generally is indelicate in her liaisons, she has been true to Snyder in this instance. But the child, what shall we say of it ? After being taunted, flouted, cajoled and bribed by turns, the soft persuasive eloquence ot Mr Wm. Adair has got at the too susceptible heart of our beloved Sarah, and actually induced the old lady to take a decided view of the apapproaching election for the Mayoralty. And our Sarah has flopped her young affections on Mr E. K. Brown. Well! he has our sympathy. If anything could tend to disparage his chances and damage his cause in the eyes of the public it would be the actual damnation clause of the “Herald’s” championship. Unjournalistic, cowardly, and imbecile, that paper has quietly waited until it has had a fair insight into things before it would advo cate either one side or the other, and has positively defended so doing by a wishywashy, trashy, Sarah like article setting forth that no newspaper dan be independent. Well we agree with Sarah so far only as she herself is concerned. She is not, never was, and never can be independent. Devoid of courage as she is prostitute in principle her independence is jeopardised by usury and sharp practise. Her prestige as a journal (if ever she had any) is gone, departed, consigned to the regions where the congenial atmosphere of promissory notes and sixty per cent. dis. delights the olfactory organs of shadowy Sarah’s ! The “ Herald’s” advocacy of Mr. E. K. Brown’s claim to the Mayoralty is exactly what was wanted to damn the whole concern. Snyder will doubtless do his best, but he can’t give them 1 more than ten bobs’ worth for THE | WHOLE PAPER WOULDN’T HOLD IT ; . still it is eminently satisfactory to know that : Sarah has got an opinion at last, even if it lis a borrowed or BOUGHT one. Our only fear is that it is too good to be true. Sarah with an opinion would be an anomaly; something like a Royal Marine from Chatham with a baby juniper. The prospect appals us, and in desperate terror of the energetic though somewhat tardy war cries of our charming old friend Sarah, we fly to the side of Mr, Henry Lewis and confide our I doubting fears him. In astonishment he raises his eyes heavenwards and exclaims in dulcet tones, “What! Sarah with an opinion Credat Judavs !