INTELLIGENCE AND LAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 8 April 1907, Page 2

INTELLIGENCE AND LAND.

To the Editor. Sir,—A week or two ago the AttorneyOneral, accompanied by his wife, addressed a meeting in New Plymouth cm (ho Land Hill, the learned doctor, unable altogether to divest himself of the habit o*' his profession, commenced hv complimenting the jury--! mean, of audience —on 'heir intelligence. Having thereby put them in hyh feather lie straightway started "pulling their kg" for all he was worth, telling them, amongst other things, that tlia people most interested in land legislation were not those who had land nnd contribute.! to the general prosperity of the colony by vyiikii-g it, but were the people who nrelViTu'l living in towns, who would not go )ii -,he l.md for any consideration, and whose only idea of the country was a pla<v to spend an occasional day i", ami got back before it. came on to rain. ■ He asked himself numerous questions, and Answered them all very wittily, bat object H to any cross-examination. In-I'dtig-nt New Plymouth listened attentively, and were vastly entoriaiued At the coiuh'sion another lawyer moved a vote of confidence in the C.ovornmenr, nnd, «it the same lime, assured his learned fri?rd that New Plymouth had a very [cor opinion of the Bill he had so ably defended. The scholarly doctor, replying, inferred that he had y'jt all he wanl'd and more than he expected, viz, their confidence; as for their dashed opinions they had better stow them in sonn c>mei;ipnt receptacle; he did not care r. hang for them. Intelligent Kcw

I'lyiirviith laughed merrily ami trotted home. A iVw nights ago a imsh farmer, unaccompanied by liis wife f why I. delivered ml address on Hit' same Bill. Xew I-lyn'oulli—that if, :ill the intelligent par! of il was conspicuous by its absenwhich is not a bit surprising when ,\o» consider how much its pre'-i oils intelligence illicit have It-ell insulted Iml it been foolish, enough to attend sueli a poor class of entertainment. Wait till lae elevating sporting drama comes along, then you will see tile "atlentiv" and intelligent" audience bustle up.—l am, etc.. "CLODDIiIi."