AN ELEGANT ARRANGEMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 4

AN ELEGANT ARRANGEMENT.

The people of Hastings, the Chicago of the North, are up in arms. And well they (might he. .'Die distinguished young gentleman who rejoices in the euplitonious (appellation of Ell, and ..who happens for the time being to I control the destinies of postage j stamps, without 'receiving more than travelling expeinsies and a free house ifor the job, had expressed his intenition of passing through Chicago, or, leather, Hastings, by mail train. ■ And every man with a grievance turned out, a* he usually does up that-way, *o pay (homage to the King. When the train pulled up in a state, of haif collapse at the railway station, it iwa© discovered that the Minister without portfolio was missing. A search •was- (Made of the luggage van aad every .recess of the train, but not a (trace could be found of the expected Ell'. Then a Magisterial enquiry was held, and evidence was given that one ''Brown, who represents the neigbIbouring village in the talking-shop, had gone out in his petrol - machine, kidnapped'the Minister at a. wayside Station, and driven him right through to Napier without passing even the time of day to rthe Hastings folk. Naturally Hastings feel© sore and slighted. But .there is no excuse whatever for the coirrespondont of t!ho local paper rising up in his wrath and

reminding the Minister of these expressive lines: — ' l Cro to father,'' ehe said when I asked

her to wed . For she knew that I knew that her father was dead. And she knew that I knew what a life he had led. So she knew thai I knew what she meant when she said "Go to father!"