SHARPS AND FLATS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 26, 1 July 1867, Page 2

SHARPS AND FLATS.

Misanthropes have agreed to*separate tne civilized world into Uvo glasses—one a small and select circle, which they denominate rogues, the other a far more numerous body that they call fools. We are far from thinking that the civilized world is composed of these two classes exclusively; but both exist in considerable numbers in all communities, and from a necessity of their being must exist together. We do not know whether a man, who is told he is more R the" P, would consider it a compliment; but we do know that though he might not consider it flattering to be thought & rogue, he would feel very indignant if he were called a fool. As both words have a disagreeable sound, and a broader signification than what is intended to be conveyed, we have chosen those which head this article to designate two descriptions of persons with whom we sometimes come in contact, and occasionally read of in {the newspapers. Flats to sharps amongst unfeathered bipeds, are what chickens are to hawks amongst the feathered creation. When they are caught they are eaten. We would not think of calling the members of the Provincial Executive chickens, but a hawk amongst chickens would give the country reader a better idea of how Mr Howard Kennard and the members of the Provincial Executive looked before the Patent Slip Committee, than any other illustration which now occurs to ns. No one at all events would class Mr Howard Kennard amongst the fiats, and we are afraid that the members of the Provincial Executive, and more espeoially our very astute Provincial Solicitor, would find some difficulty in getting themselyes to be mistaken for sharps. We are speaking of their appearance before the Committee, but the allowing of such a Committee to be held under the circumstances, was a very expensive and foolish piece of business. Had they before hand agreed with Mr Kennard that both parties were to abide by the decision of the Council there would have been some sense and meaning.in the arrangement. To such a proposition it is possible Mr Kennard would not have assented, when the Government could have declined, with a good grace, from going to the expense of such an investigation as that instituted, when it would have to be decided by a Court of Law. As it was the Government, at the public cost, afforded him a rehearsal of the play to be acted before a Court of Law out of which introductory process he must have gained some useful information, together with some serviceable hints, which will be not likely to benefit the Province. Which, of these two parties where the sharps—which the flats ? Any school-boy will furnish a solution, to the problem.