SLOP JOURNALISM.
The “ Sydney Evening News ” has a criticism on the result of Mr Bryce’s negotiation, written by someone who professes’to know all about New Zealand and the Maoris. Hesays By-the-by, in addition to Lis £4OO a year, Tawhiao was offered a seat in the Legislative Council, an " appointment as assessor under the Native Lands Act, and finally the position of a Justice of the Peace. Well, in all probability, ho would have made a better J.P. than many whom ; we have kqown in New Zealand. The old gentleman was very well behaved when he sat in the House of Representatives with h;8 black silk bat and purple bandana, and we have never seen him,as we haveseen some of his white colleagues, lying, drunk on the floor of the House. In many respects these fine old natives are superior to the white men generally so indeed in physique, and frequently in character and respectability.” The “ New Zealand .Times ’’ says “The writer never saw Tawhiao in the House of H-ipresentativea, for, the■very'* good reason that Tawhiao never wds there. We fancy we can recognise in this contribntioii to pur Sydney contemporary the handiwork of a Now Zealand pressman, whose slopwork was too well known bore. :
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3015, 25 November 1882, Page 2
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204SLOP JOURNALISM. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3015, 25 November 1882, Page 2
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