LAWRENCE AS IT IS : ACCORDING TO THE "EVENING MAIL."

Tuapeka Times, Issue 1, 15 February 1868, Page 3

LAWRENCE AS IT IS : ACCORDING TO THE "EVENING MAIL."

" To describe the incorporated township of Lawrence, Tuapeka, 'as an impersonification of Satan divided agi»inst himself, would be to clothe the place with far too much importance ; at the same time, we are not going wide of the mark when we say that it ia in ?, fair way of gaining for itself an unenviable notoriety for those petty squabbles vulgarly known as c pulldevil pull-baker' contests. This is a reputation which we can scarcely believe the thinking part of the population will very much envy ; at the same time, they must be content to put up with it, until they are prepared to devise some means for silencing the impetuosity of these howling demagogues with wlrich the place appears to lia^e become infested. On the other hand, those without the disti'K I "}* ■■ -*ver can? be sure that a fair.

)'. -^ i-..«>i" ':■ . n .' '->' trary,'tiu > •'. •:-•' 't 1 11.^... •' *• have not '» r If" been distort. •< r '- • pervertcl, that a conclusion d'f. opposite would amount to the true facts of the case.

v The MaJOT Croker agitation, which was enacted at Tnapeka a few months ago with such singular audacity, furnishes a notable cxamplej^yoint ; and until the district has purged itself of that scandal, it will -bdio3£.bothtita} Government and Lhc public gcnoral^^^Hpmj^^representations coming froiii^|^iuigreat|lp|^!l! 1 ' II is unnecessary to repeat the liustory of that transaction -in ao-Uilr— It ' will he enough to say that, before the purpose of the Government to depose Major Croker from the office of Resident Magistrate had been allowed to circulate amongst its really industrial cla?se«, a few partizans of that gentleman had (-oiie through the solemn farce of "^isp" lutions condemnatory of the ; ',':i ,v •. change, and, without allowing; • omr breathing time, these wei'e m& ,ed on .-y telegi-aph to the seat of GovfarnVient as representations made by the districtr-iu> public meeting assembled. An attempt was made to counteract this representation ; but so craftily had the plot on the other side been carried out, that while the true sentiment of the place was being matured, the edict issued by the Government was reversed and the gallant Major reinstated. A more complete triumph, at the expense of truth and honor, could scarcely have been achieved ; iind as surely as cause is succeeded By effect, so surely will the result of this ruse be to deaden any principle of public morality that may have been left lurkingMn the minds of these arcli-cogitafors, and, like the house clean swept and garnished, seven devils, mere dangerous than the former, will renew the tenure.

•" For reasons like these we cannot congratulate the Key. Mr.. C. T\ Simmons on the vote of confidence said to havebeen passed at a public meeting of the 'inhabitants of Tuapeka,' held at Lawrence on the evening of Wednesdaylast. The proceeding, so far. as it has been communicated to us, savors strongly of the clap-trap element, and the probability is that if those turbulent spirits who do the howling work for Tuapeka could have- g-vfc up a faction fight of a more exclusively local .character they would not have bothered their, solves either wifli Mr. Simmons or the troubles into \ he has been / led by his own lack "on. Mattars, however, in present moment would iet in that lina, and it to exp'sct the pugiisjso strongly

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