"TANIWHA” ON THE HON. GEORGE FISHER.
The Wellington individual, says the Wairarapa Star, who in the columns of the Australasian, crouches on all fours behind the pseudonym of “ Taniwha ” thus, in hn “ New Zealand Notes,” stabs a better man than himself, for though I may occasionally chasten, I still really admire, “ Our George”: — Mr Fisher is an extraordinary character. Ho began life as a compositor in the Government Printing Office, and was afterwards a Hansard reporter. Then he took to Municipal politics, and without knowing anything about them, except how to get a
majority at an election, he was twice Mayor of Wellington, but ultimately defeated by the present Mayor, who is In's polar opposite in all respects. Mr Fisher has also been twice returned to the House of Representatives, where he never distinguished himself much, except by his inordinate pugnacity and by delivering carefully prepared speeches of an extra knock-me-dowu character, mainly compiled from American orators. But he has a somewhat terrific presence, and vast lung power, and is, in fact,_ an abnormal specimen of a pushing, ambitious, political intriguer of the transatlantic type. Hence he was taken into the Atkinson Ministry last session, undisguisedly as a sop to the“ working man ” and as Ministerial “ chucker out ”on occasion. Ho has been a dismal failure in all respects, however, and it has ended in his trying to play a lone hand under the table.” Whatever “ Our George’s” faults may be, and they are various, he never had to sleep ’neath the Speaker’s table to escape a public tar and feathering, nor has he as yet been compelled to make a public and pitiful apology to the members whom he had slandered. George is big, and perhaps a bit bumptious, but he’s “ clear grit.” “ Taniwha” isn’t. Surely,’tis better to begin life as a compositor and succeed, than as a “ gentleman ” and fail.—-It will interest our readers to know that Mr Wakefield is supposed to be Taniwha,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1765, 19 July 1888, Page 3
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