OBSERVER’S OBSERVATIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 286, 4 September 1880, Page 2

OBSERVER’S OBSERVATIONS.

Under this heading I pi'opoae Sir, from time to time, to vent my feelings in regard to the general requirements of the town and neighborhood, as well as to critise the doings o f those “ high in authority,” with the ultimate object of rectifying any grievance that may exist.

On dit tha,t a, gentleman well-known and highly yesp.ected, and a, resident i,n the town, has had a serious charge laid against him. Let us hope the charge will pro.ye to b,e (as I expect it will) groundless. In your contemporary, the ■* Telegraph,” I noticed about a niontli ago that one of our local trad' ; smen had been distinguishing himself in the way of benevolence. Without going into the main facts of the case —which were pretty correctly stated —I may say that a great many people—-myself included —blame the commission agent as much as the-trades-man for accepting the amount tendered. The most amusing part of the affair is that it cost the agent exactly the amount he received for “ nips.” Need I say that that agent would have joined a certain society, having for its primary object sobriety, but that the said tradesman is an honorary member of-the. said society.

A movement fs on foot in the shape of a petition calling on our—our representative I was going to observe, but that would be wrong—Mr Wakefield to resign his seat for Geraldine. The question has been ashed will he resign. Query. The appeal cese, Harrop v. Carlyon, comes off ".bout the middle- of this month in Christchurch. lam reliably informed that the appellant’s counsel (Mr Austin) has undertaken the case free of cost, Mr J. W. White being the solicitor for the crown. Without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case at issue, pn blic opinion is decidedly adverse to the heavy fines which have been inflicted by the K> M in these cases, and it is to be hoped that the decision of His Honor Judge Johnston will settle the point involved at once and for ever

And so our R.M. is going to seek “ fresh fields and pastures new,” and we are to have periodical vishs from Mr Beefcham, the worthy R.M. of Timaru. I suppose, however, this will not prevent two J.P.’s from sitting in cases up to £25 ; but, as I believe there only exists one of these gentlemen in the town, this will be impossible. But stay, what has become of the petition sent up some weeks ago in fayor of a gentleman who would be a host in himself ! This gentleman, descended no doubt from the great law giver himself —I refer to Moses —would not be sat upon by the gentlemen in the long robes—knowing as much as any of them himself, and well deserving the euphonius title of Attorney Q-eneral. “Au reyoir.”