SIR H. PARKES' LIBEL ACTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1897, 24 January 1885, Page 2

SIR H. PARKES' LIBEL ACTION.

The following are tho extracts from the article for which Sir H. Parke's'has just brought a libel action, but could 'not get a verdict, After evading liisfor thirteen months, Sir Hejiry. Parkea has returned to tho qpjpny, and' of courao a_ few oj hjs followers give huh' a feed. Sin Homy is a man who never in. his life paid anyone if he could help if; If ha ;mado a man's acquaintance it was solely for the purpose of borrowing money from him, or getting him to endorse a spry, note, which the unfortunate inyarii ably had to, pay, He ajways ]\k $4 Wends lib matter'. \\oy good, for new pnes, and has altogether been a m.an unworthy of confidence. Of course, it was hardly to bo expected, that he could allow such a change a* MrStuafk to slip from him, How amusing«W\'/ the political charlatan who had negated his legislative duties for thirteen months say that the Ministry had degraded polity ca} institutions, and that for the first time he (Sir Henry) was ashamed of his country, Wedonotknowaomuch.abouthim being ashamed of his country but.we know the couutry is tired and ashamedl of SirH, Parkes, Just fancy the orawling, miserable sycophant, who listened at the .cell door to hear the ravings of the madman' O'Farrell, boing ashamed of the finest and happiest country under the Bun—which it would not be if cloven : footed gentry ' like Sir-Homy, had- their-way:' Fancy the man who tried to;"'put'up •%' Jfora shore tym tytyuntf'of tie pountry that has fed him,sjid winked at crimes for which anotiher'pjian would have beei imprisoned. Only think of the man who took'little.Dr Eenwick into the Ministry for the modest consideration of £SOO talking about the Stuart Ministry degrading political institutions? A peevish child would have exhibited more manliness than Sir Henry did the only true sentence he did say W?%p "The country had, enough oMe," True, o,'Eirig Heury the Ninth; well-wisher of the colony has had enough of you, and of the, miserable clique who have been at your beck and call, and whose only chance of ever getting into power is by setting class • against class, and prostituting everything- * that is sacred or manly. •'■• '■"■'■ ■ "