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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 201, 9 June 1893, Page 3

["The editor is not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] To THE EDITOR. Sir, —I had an impression that the Orangemen were a respectable organisation linked together to defend what they believe to be the true religion, and though I never could see the need of them, at least in this country, yet I had a sort of respect for them for the sake of their creed, I am sorry to say that my respect has been in uqli shaken by recent events. Not long ago a writer in your paper called attention to the presence of a number of Orangemen at the opening of the E. C. Church at Opanaki, and referred particularly to one who had held a high position in the Order; and such attendance at a Papish ceremony was said to be' a direct violation of an Orangeman’s oath. Such I am told is the case, but of course the Order cannot be blamed for what one member may do, and so I thought little more of it. But when almost immediately after wards the Orange Society invite such a man to address themselves and friends at a social gathering the discredit falls upon them as a body, and I do not envy them the results of such action, for if it does not disgust their own membership as well as outsiders I would not give much for the character of the lot.—l am, Sir, Axti Humbug.