The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1882.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1052, 19 April 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1882.

The Parihaka telegram, which we published yesterday, is the 'sequel to the late Ministerial melodrama, the finale of Sir Aktjiuji GiQepon's puppet show, It reveals a line of ro,cks and breakers into which our well-meaning, foujt dunderheaded, gubernatorial pilot was steering the state vessel, The order, " 'bout ship," catrio not a moment too soon. . The;,Parihaka insurgents have, for soniejinonths past, been quiescent, restrained ,by a wholesome fear of John Bryce's strong hand. They suddenly hear that His Excellency has deposed Sous Bryce, and that an extremely harmless old gentleman, Sir George, is to reign in his stead, The 'jubilant Natives cry "Kapai Sir) George Grey," and a"t once began to muster at Parihaka to play the old game, which was so .effectually stopped j on a former occasion, hy our' Colonial Oliver Cromwell. New Zealand was almost in the vortex of privy conspiracy and rebellion, when His Exexcellency came to his senses, and sent Sir GEoaflß Gray, with his list of new mimstei"s,baoktoKajyau. The Parihaka .nialecontents suddenly found that they kd been misled bv the '.'-Truth- ■■ fulJaines," of the Opposition Press, and that they had not heard the last of hm Bryce, When the Constabu-' lary commenced tumbling down whares about their ears, they ipsp have felt: that there was still a little of John Bryce in their atmosphere, and retired sadder and wiser men till it should please providence, or Sir Arthur Gordon to relieve them of the man they are afraid of, His Excellency may thank his stars and ribbons that his iftte blunder has not resulted in a Native outbreak, and not embrued the land with the blood of both races. Some time ago we said the Governor may not be a pleasant sociable man, but we believe him to be a man of high personal character and strict integrity. Should a crisis ever occur in this colony, we believe his aid at such a juncture will be invaluable, When we anticipated this we were mistaken—not, we believe, in our estimate of his character, but in taking for granted the fact, that he possessed a Bound judgment. We dp not believe that Sir Arthur is other than a good man, but we can scarcely come to any other conclusion than that he lacks wisdom and understanding.

(ton local contemporary on Monday last stated that wo were on the horns of a dilemma. It had published a letter from Mr Coleman Phillips which was a thorough 'refutation of the emphatic contradiction of the Daily, and it said that wo wore in honor bound to disclose the source of our inspiration iu denying tho accuracy of our contemporaries' comments—" animated by a spirit of perverseness we had thrown discretion to the winds," A great many other had things 1 were said about us, and with a viow to clear the matter up a littlo, we sent the following telegram to Mr James Donald :-"Ee late election County Chairman, do you mind slating whether at any time you were prepared to bupport Mr Coleman Phillips?" In reply wo have rcceivod the following messago:—"/ have never beenpreparal to support Mr G, Phillips lo Ik County Chair, I toe sent a correction to tfic Star," We havo no doubt that our contemporary will now do its the justice to admit that it has been misled.