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THE LITTLE "FIB."

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Si.a,—lndifference eifaer .fc> praise or censure. constitutes a real defect in charac*- >r. The profound a:id continued siience of the Chief -Magistrate -gives : a Iditiooal sanction ( > thewel^sustairied ' charge of iMtmtbfW con'ductj Where there is shame there is generally' also virtue, buo the abseuce of confession of ei/or and Llie t tnende honorable, displays ! a want of both. Utu.'uth ia the mo3t 1 r-^ous of >lce9, wbile justice is the greatest of blessings ?nd tne principle of aU others. Messrs. Osbot-ie, Dean, and, Wilson can prove on' oath, if,,, necessary, that the Mayor has been deliberately a*jd flagrantly guilty of the first, by overwhelmWg evidence both of for whom he did ?id didnot vo^j; while the public points, in their reports of the ' magistei irl exam;tia''on of the unfortunate man Prof offi, show that by a strange obiiqui y of judgment the Mayor notomy considered it decent rid uroper to write ; leading &> uioles upon a cv minal ease aub judice, fid upon wh-'ch he sat judicially, but to exhib'.t a prejudice in favor of • establishing Tuilt as more important to the welfare of the Str.te than the sustaining of iim :.nce. The crimiriar law, which is calcu'.al" ;& to mrke criminals and then punish them on the slightest suspicion, seN m motion a vast and well organised machinery of police, lawyers, •. doctors, and experts to prove the.guilt of; the accused, leaving him to the accident of circumstaices. buddehly arrested' t|jf the police, handcuffH, e^^pgpd all nigh"t ' ' ironed, excluded from 'intsjsjjcfnrae or^cprrespondenee with bis friiinds, family, or ; professional adviser, without kfluence, money, or means of providing rebutting evidence, perhaps of a subtle, intricate, scientific, and expensive character. All tbis, despite fhe maxim that every " accused man should be considered and treated as innocent until proved feV-'-Üb/, our chief MUriisL'ate approves; instead of expending to an unfortunate fallow citizen the proleeiAng and merciful nand of justice, and a ibi'ding him every , t . facility to establish his innocence. The . citizens should look cavei'ully to the moral and po.H'uipft'. character of their representative men. A'?eady we have beea seriously ompromisc 1 by the behaviour of a late member, and by the members from Auckland. The Southern people ask what sori; of a community wo can be . to return such vtxsn to Parliament ? The conduct of our present Mayor has attracted, oad w;ll continue to ajtraet, the attention of the country. Despite his; puerile uttera ices at cricket and Yblu'n- l teer meetings, pad his sanctimonious . . clinging to the ski?i;s of a self-righteous • female frnatie, the vice of uatruth is so repulsive that it disfigures all his conduct, and the conduct of all persons, howeverhigii thei ? position. There is, too, an element of vreachei/ towards his brother councilors acd the public, so base as to defy adequate description ::n words. I have kept si ence up to the present time, daily expecting t n answer to these odious charges. If the Mayor deludes himself with the idea that silence will efface the remembrrace of this turpitude, he is in a fool's paraiise. His conduct is the talk v,: every street , corner. Deliberate treachery such a3 his entails punishment upoa the traitor. Therj is no possibility of escap'ng it, even i i the highest ranic to which the consent of his fellow citizens can exalt the meat est and worst of men. His office is u'iaatara\ to him, and indefeasible infamy is brought upon the office; this opprobrious infamy V; 111 reach beyond New .Zealand. Tae immediate consequences of this flagitious action are that lie has lost r". confidence under signal circumstances of scou, reproach, and insult, o say nott?ng of the general exultption of vV. p He may deem that certain Torjas of \illaiies aye necessary to success. Here.fter, however, he will act with gi-eater circumspection, and not drive so directly towards to his object. To snatch a grave beyond' the reach of common treachery is an exception, not a rule.—l em, &c. f Ceedenda.

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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3815, 21 March 1881, Page 2

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THE LITTLE "FIB." Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3815, 21 March 1881, Page 2

THE LITTLE "FIB." Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3815, 21 March 1881, Page 2

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