MR READER WOOD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 199, 15 November 1879, Page 3

MR READER WOOD.

Mr Reader Wood M. 11. R., has gained for himself a notoriety which will,ensure in the memory of colonists even long alter his dust lias mingled with the dirt which, figuratively, he says he can throw off at will, but which morally clings to and hesmoils him aa part and parcel of his very nature. The term political rat does not sufficiently indicate his propensities. The rodent may be at times beguiled. There is at least the benefit of the convenient doubt whether the political rat has displayed inherent vice or has walked into a trap ciinningly devised. In Mr Reader Wood's case there is no shadow of uncertainty. He is in word and deed a political traitor, a spy in the camp, a miserable informer. Men, for less betrayal of party and friends, have been pillored, tarred, and feathered, even discreetly not, as things cumbering the earth in vain, and the transgression has been condoned because of the enormity of the provocation. Mr Reader Wood will escape these reprisals because he is among a law-abiding, much enduring people, hut morally he is ostrocized from all honest men's esteem. Mr DeLatour—this gentleman will pardon tis for naming him in the same breath with such a renegade—gave good sterling, ttianly advice when he counselled members to avoid the contamination of social intercourse with' members of the clasp Mr Reader Wood is a prominent example of. Let them send such such politicians to Coventry. They are not worth knowing, least of all not recognising, as entitled to share in the amenities of sucial intercourse. Within the walls of the Huuse they can claim a certain meed of recognition. Outside its portals they are but common political filcheis ; men, whose very shadows seem to leave a slimy trail Let them be avoided.— Manawatu Times.