SIR BARTLE FRERE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2317, 20 August 1880, Page 3

SIR BARTLE FRERE.

* “ Frcrc, the atrocious, the quite indefensible ; ■Maker of barbarous wars lias become Frcrc, the sagacious, the quite indispensable Man the policy favored at home. “ Wonders on wonders! but by this addition or Bather completion the summit is topped ; Frcrc, the forgiven and trusted Commissioner, Shortly discovers his salary stopped ! “ Surely a body of fables incredible Gathering round this Commissioner Frcrc ! One I could swallow, or two might be edible, Hardly the whole—-in a single career. “ Wiggcd by Conservative chiefs who appointed him, Cursed—and conserved by the 'Whigs wlio attacked ! Feathered and tarred by the priests who annointed him, "Whitewashed by those at whose hands he was blacked !

“ Sternly rebuked and with signal humility Bowing his head and consenting to stay Fiercely reviled and retained for ability! Highly' commended —and docked of ° his pay!

u Have I as one or two Commissioners reckoned, or Is there a brace of Prime Ministers here ? Arc there two Gladstones, a first and a second, oils there, perchance, an alternative Frcre ?

« Vainly, ah vainly, I strive with the mystery,,’ r Vainly I hunt i’ur the clue that I miss ;

Fog and perplexity! Who would the history Wish to compose of a people like this ? ” From the “ ot James's Gazette.” At Dunedin yesterday, two men named George McGusty and Thomas Taylor, who were arrested about a week ago at lUneskin for illicit distillation were fined £IOO each, with the alternative af twelve months’ impiisomucnt. It requires a pretty daring landlord to be his own bailiff sometimes, but the performances of a well-known lady who owns certain cottages not far from the Wai-iti road are not to be eclipsed. After putting up with certain unproductive and impecunious tenants for a time, her patience became exhausted, and hiring an express yesterday she made a descent on a three-roomed establishment. The lively furniture consisting of a couple in a happy state of intoxication, defied removal, but the bed, bedding, and other household poods were carted away, and the energetic landlady, so wc are informed, has since been hawking them about town for sale. Meantime tlie tenants arc in occupation, and refuse to be dislodged.