Morrinsville. LIVELY PROCEEDINGS. [From a Correspondent.] Morrinsville, Thursday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 404, 21 September 1889, Page 2

Morrinsville. LIVELY PROCEEDINGS. [From a Correspondent.] Morrinsville, Thursday.

energetic manager, nnil was generally supposed to be giving every satisfaction to his employm-fl (the 8.N.Z.). On Thursday night, however, the " bubble burst," as two of the Bank officials (Messrs Hume ami MeCaw), unexpectedly came out Prom Hamilton, and on arriving nt Morrinsvillo, requested several of the men employed on the Lockerbie estate to meet them at the Nottingham Castle hotel, and to bring nil their day books, etc., with them. Mr Harrison was also sent for ; likewise the "employee." Before proceeding to bnsines9, Mr Hume stated that certain yery serious charges had been preferred against Mr Harrison, the present manager, and they (Mr McCaw and himself), had come to enquire into the matter, ami ascertain if the charges made could be substituted. After a short investigation they came to the conclusion that the charges made against Mr Harrison were "a tissue of fabrications," they entirely exonerated Mr Harrison with respect thereto, and instructed that the "employee" be at once dismissed. Singular to say the " employee*' cannot write his own name, and can read a newspaper as well upside down as any other way, and the question was at once asked, who wrote the letters preferring the charges against Mr Harrison ? Suspicion fell on one of our villagers, and it was easily seen there had been more than ono at work concocting the villainous schemg to injure another man's character, and if possible get him dismissed. The general public were not in possession of the foregoing fact 9 until Friday night; and when they became known there was great excitement, and it was decided to have a " demonstration " over the affair, expressive of their indignation, and to burn the " employer" in effigy. The " demonstration took place on last Saturday night. A party of about thirty assembled, including road board members, licensing commissioners, school committee men, prominent members of our Temperance Society, etc., in fact, all sorts and conditions of men mingled together to show their resentment of tho manner in which Mr Harrison hnl been treated. They marched up and down the road (gum filing, music playing, youths shouting, etc.) several times after which a large heap of straw anil rubb'sh was set on fire in front of the Nottingham Custle, and the effigy of the " employee" thin thrown into it. Amove was next made to the lions-, of the " employee's " suspected accomplice. Here the party first gave three h°arty rhoure for Mr Harrison, and then called for I hi°.ses, and hoots for " .Tildas' Cl'Tk" ; all of which w re vo fo on-ly q yon. The Mispictcd "Clerk ' v'V judiciously did not show our.. Subsequently a figure dressed up ns >i ! man, having a longhor.se h.nir bcrd, stock hat, with a b»nd of e-ilieo round it, bearing the words "Ju hs' Clerk," was s«t up in this persons garden. It 13 stated tho would be spy had arml'uls of papers, etc., and mado accusations against Mr Harrison, extending over the past two years, and not content with that made all sort 3 of indirect charees against other local residents as well. Th« feeling of indignation in consequence of these false ncensations reached «uch a high pitch, and the excitement wns so great that it is almost a matter of surj rise it was restrained even within the bounds it was. Men who would bo guilty of such treacherous conduct do not deserve any sympathy, and yet one cannot help pitying them, both having large families of young i children. It is to be hoped for their own sak^s and for the good of the district, they will speedily seek fresh fields and pastures new, make a fresh start,and never again be guilty of such treacherous actions. As the " employee" has been dismissed, and the names of both parties referred to have obtained an unenviable notoriety locally, and, as already stnted, in my opinion they are really to bo pitied for mailing such fools of themselves, I have no wish to add to their punishment by publishing their nrnies to be more widely made known through the columns of the News, as it might do them an injury at some distant place to which they may remove.