A much abused potentate, whose name ia not usually pronounced in polite society) has been credited with finding mischief for idle hands to do. The members of the present ministry have been occasionally : cursed with idle moments, and the particular mischief which the tempter has been wont to suggest to them has been the making of J.P.'s. There has been an aihusing debate in the Assembly on the J,P. craze, and ministers have been laughed at. Well 1 they might have been kicked instead of ridiculed, and they may congratulate themselves on their good fortune. It is almost a pity that the House, instead of making fun, had not connected them for the mischief to the colony which they have already accomplished. Apparently, members themselves sharo in the decadence which now characterises the justice j roll, and we may perhaps yet live to: see a Minister of Education who, like the Hutt J.P., cannot read and write,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2308, 31 May 1886, Page 2
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