HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 517, 23 November 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin, —Virtue is triumphant. " Your Own" at Eaglan has scored off the Doctor well and handsomely. Good old Raglan ! We are wondering how the Rev. Doctor will take the licking and how he took the news as reported in your columns, that the Raglan people had unanimously vindicated your reporter's truthfulness. When 1 say uuanimously I mean that no one voted against the verdict, although several prominent Seddonitcs were in the hall who were also present at the Doctor's meeting, and those men were dumb. Will the Doctor climb down now ? He tried to make your reporter a liar, aud now the Raglanites who listened to the Rev. Seddonite have said unanimously that the Doctor is the man with the defective memory or elastic conscience. Sir,you should have seen your reporter's face when the verdict was given ; he looked angelic. There were no cries of " shame " and " corruption " about him then. We anxiously await the trimming of the Doctor's sails. I daresay he wishes he had left Raglan severely alone. He reckons to come again before the election. Uood ! —I am, etc., Taihoa. Rakarana.