Our Wellington Watchman.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2695, 8 September 1887, Page 2

Our Wellington Watchman.

■■' Wellington, September 7.1 Tho local political oventof the wdek has beon, I thiuk, the debut of Mr : T. Darter, who " woos" the free and inde ; pendents of Wellington Kast ag aii iiidependent candidate, and who lovoth not Major Atkinaou, but whose language with regard to Messrs Stout uind Ballance is painfully free and of the most scathing nature.. Mr" Carte(i oomea before the]public as a workingroan's candidate. Ho huil.s from the Northern shores of Italy—from Donegal possibly! Mr.Carter was for thir-teen-months' a distinguished member of ou'rjiioatj .distinguished. Torpedo Fporoe, and, "Bedad I" saya Mr Carter, 'T knew lese about, the miu'thxria things wjieu I. left' the- foorce - than wheal jin«d.". Mr. Carter does- no'f j-lova'Jir Ballanoauprioeshß in his; moreover j he (Air remarlfHbld story ; of diversified: blind/ Oesß with wiii'dgkl)', frticyj- uad l&taggere' 1 and pres|ited;it.Belfit the Diorning^h v, a csimJ : pin ned■ to' Lb;q stump of itß tail, bmwring tli ig Inscripv tion above the signature of ah-lin portant official:. ''This/horao %«. bo bought 1 by tijo, Deftnc©. t-,'.' Q Ufa fail, Ornmi'- : .%[.'■:;■* r l feat Mr Car.ter'e'cbaqces of >bcatin|' : Mr Qeeirge Fisher are email,', but had J a- vote!-tau'oy Mr parlor should have if] if only : for. tb'O. delight it aifford ineto hear. Ihiia question : BaJ-'' lance in the .that eoquiiie with the fltaggera. . ■:• ':.

. .. Ifeißvery sad to learn, that bur ttfd friend, Key. Bbirley Bakgr;, Tycoon-'of Xpnga/ial ti)';bß'watoheii.hy.; the Britwli' Government,,and if necessary deported. The Imperial Government do&.not like private individuals" to kill; niggers, l but prefers keeping! "that .;,'delightful business in its own hands, and: to slay > Abysinnians, AsbanteeSj Villus;' and •Chinamen iu the' regulation manQer and : with all the latest modem •improve- • ments. Shirley Baker is not likely to '. Meterred to any great extent in his little plan tor christianising:the Wasleyan Tongan ,by any watching the British may dp. Baker is a bom ruler,of black men; or in other words', he permits no absurd scruples regard* ing the iivoa of otbers to interfere with his projects, and he is a largo shareholder in one of the. largest New Ze'aland banks, and of such is the kingdom of heaven, - I say. talking of Chinamen; I peiceive your estimable, elegant,'talented, intellectual, truthful—l don't want to appear fulsome—local contemporary, compares your "loader writer" to a ■''long eared animal", presumably an ass, I hope you will not be induced to ■; compare'an ass to your local contotaW porarjt-t% insult the w t . ' •.; ,; J; .•■Now,I read the article rcg&rding'. China, which" So augers your 10c.4 contemporary, and the only:|b|g .wrong I could see about it the writer had compared your-lpfijl contemporary to a CblnamauV..;■;.]% imltGkkamtiil • ..

"Just -at present, wbeu so poy : yowliug, howljng creatures are Waring ' about the', country, 'profeßsfng their undying love for the working tian, and' their extreme'willingness, to stilrve for,' him at the rate of £2liD Bpauion,". perquisites, and what their.-.'own • pri-' vate business may bring in j and when we reflect that these reajiy made' patriots and lovers of their species have done nothing, absolutely nothing' ;to idemonsiraic thin racing, affection for the poor roan wbipli devpors thorn, it ;may be neither unintcrestioft nor uninstructiye to turn oureyea towards the Mother Country, and in im;as]n.B> .(lion refresh our vision, wj.th a glimpse ' of a Radical in deed : an j irn4 • '" " Who throngh lonu.days.pl-Übor, And- nightß'devo jd of : Still kept in bis soul tha flpfo Of meat wonderful mt]oiik." I allude to xhe-strongest, sternest, and truest RadicalvEngTao'd has known ' sinoe the day Cpliver Oonwll~tQ-. Charles Bradlaugh. Whatever "men may thinbof Mr'BradlaugVs religions or non-religious, opinions, this" must be admitted, viz.'j that for nearly fortv years this man has devoted h'ia matchloss force and genius tq the cause of the poor and oppresaed of England. He has never flinched, never wavered. Riches, rank, oriease have never made him hesitate, never attracted him f or one moment, surmounted ia •■' a country ; that treats the talented poor man as an W «mj f the terrible barricade society erects against low birth—and is .regarded in the English House of '

Commons as perhaps the most capublo man in it. But Mr Bradlaugb has Retained this position not by troth and bounce, bat by his dauntless honest;, truth aud talent. -.-;.-• -And now. w.u' ; h>ar-, lliab V; BraclhiH|h . ias'reaobod; ii&j|s# wi}e'%nj<^m J>uilbr:hiffisef;^ ;}«evof'% ■■fi'iiise,^;'fiqipjoM. : ''bfe' 'the^aboj|tipfi^or t is regMded;as> Mf ~iradJaugbii r;^rettVfriu^p£ii]deMt! ' ; these'peiiPuVand 'siaepurea was, tmr ;?sreasoh'fw^ cSiion: be; iW . English"' fortes, Who' made'' Mr, Jrailjaugh's. religious!, qpinjoj)h Ltheir'stalk- • JOg-borse, though many of them cared as. little, for those, as aome : of the cowards imd-bad-livera who ha.ye been intrAcing leligious. matters info. ■■;politHal: disousaiiiiis'a"l'ittle.'uearor home, than''the' Bijgliif flouso of Commons.' J '••' '.. ,' .

. I notice that' <v fame indulged the other evening, iiv the Press, iu a mild but pprfeotly.justifiable " blow" tp'uehiu" the success of the " Cigarettes" Thesehave not only befii cofud rnoetgauerten without acknowledgement l —by the press of New .Zealand, but have fouud imitators iu Australia, aud

eveaiu'.Aaionca, ■ There.caubfi no doubVof tiie talent displayed by Puff, and anyor.e who has ever tried auy thing similar knows the difficulty ex priced in maintaining that sort of comment, winch otten contains in a few lines 'inoiu boiled-down information than, ut long- and weary leader. At v tbe same time, tkoio ia one 'subject' which "'Putt" deals, with in what-I take leave to think, a iuan.net' utterly unworthy of his undoubted varied information and cleverpess, I ineau tlio Home Rul'o movement and the Irish question generally.; The 'Sydney Bulletin, in a late -imp, imide the following very true rcnflirk :t-." The Irish' corresp'oti—dents of Euglibh and Colonial journals,, .seem, to be actuated in their selection, pi iewß by a-common 'maxim :-r ' "Unless we can send something infer: nttl.uguinbt.ibß Irish pe'oplo,'''wq'had -better, send nothingat : allf" .. ~v f u.ft!' must be well aware that tLisTa correct arid'that the largest Majority ' l 'qf; Mo';., grams rejatiy'e to "Iffllaffd 'attd'Houie ,o%;re>- sent to this Colony,',"are! bsr, garbled, and disgracefully' anti.-. Irish, in tone, and yet-not only'doeshe accept'these; cablegrams uts gospel, ;bnt be Bouiba;-to take tin unholy delight.infurther twisting, warping," aud'.'geiietv ally bending to biV owft vkm' Ithtee' absurd .messages' ' ''';",:':"". '.,?.,'

Of'overj .other question, but this' Irish ono" Puff" bqowb his' ability to Utke a broad aud mauly view, .but imiuedirtely ■■'. poor'.' IrelaniL 'looms, uiontalgarA he.' can see oothiug save through' a-jauudiced," yellowj or orange haze. Surely "Puff" knows that there are two sides to every question. Be has har'ped'bn his antiIrish string not only with consistence, but with a "damnable iteration," and if he will take- a friendly'hint from one who admires both feho'raari and his writings, b«t loves not- liis old-world, conservatism, he .will'somewb'at reform this little. Irish eccentricity of big \ nay, Signorpuff,:l pray you !-.•''(), vetorm it altogether.-' ■"'•"..■

this '.-Kicking against the priutak is .useless: .and'therefore absurd. .Not m the bideyboirad old Conservative lords and.landlords in England—turing in a slowly rotting dreaming tho dreams of bad years, and nonprogressive days that can never corao back—can prevent Ireland oveufcualjy. obtaining, if ome Rule* they may delay iLss they havo delayed every other r«grm, but they only make the final dapf. reckoning more bitter for all concerned, ■ ■

In what is termed tho "Great Modern March of Science," one is apt to have doubts as to the correct nomenclature of things, I was startled to discover, by a recent issue of the Wairarapa Standard, that the writer "Thoughteverybody knew carrots and those kind of .things were minerals dug up from the bowels of the earth* On further causidtrution, however—and as I perceive the Standard man ,f 08 comparing the Native Office Clerk "Vho occasionally browses in the oolufl£»of the Cartel ton peutiy dreadful, ifa certain scriptural friend of the late lamented Mr Balaam—l decided that the Standard writer should' have followed the example of -Arteinus Ward, and have notified bis readers ".rbißie a goak." Judge my 'bewjlder-, meat, however, when, shortly after, 1 find the Evening Press, in anexcelleht and perfectly. serious leadpr entitled. "Despijjfc Wea|tb," writing on .the' mibject of the harmless necessary' kauri gum as" The earliest, and ; for tb'an'y years the only 'mineral export' of the Colony." Then,, I.say, "Things are not what tbey Beenij or this must be a printers error." And now I find that the Melbourne Argus, in ii recent critique, alluded, to Kauri gum as a " mineral ore." Have r we then been deceived all this time ?, Is not kauri gum the exudation of the kingly kauri in whose branches.the winds, laughed' wmowhere about~-the time the Egyp- . tjaus were building the big. pyramid? .fjjj 1 ;' \» kauri gum, after, all, ouly a ■ i|iJ{i^orßorV' : qf tin, ami are carrots ore? I pause for a reply.

With reference to your leader ■ of Friday last, entitled " Gross Corruption," 1 am in a position to inform you ■ ' that, by order of the the Hon. J. Ballanoe,: the number of qualifying marks for Volunteer Officers kas be ft.for ihiukction occauon only, iltereupom £0 to 60. This haa been done, and we may expect, to see the names of those Wariganui officers who actually failed to pass their tion— that is, failed to,obtain the necessary marks—in next Gazette. This cap only be characterized as.disgraceful, but it is a 'sample of many tuaay similar dodges used by the Go Vermont .to influence, votes. The law is probably .unable to reach this species ot cortuptipb, if it be »ot bribery

nd corruption it is remarkably diffiuk- to give it a name, Jt has more glanders about it thun that glandered dcfunco horse.

;> You'should really be careful about; t'insfertiflg jVagra|ihs; aliout " Embi'jo" ' who wave hard-bitter bajsy •flud sjhdjiit '.''Hurrah for, Hogg.J" : pr'you : •tfilF ciiusiß; Hoadsbei: •.'"Ito," who the' credit for ,tbese things, Mores' top tbitthe ,'hns received-several 'letfws - thriatpjiiflg...tft.Jlfty'e,..hU.gQre, 4\nd thatsonieone has been wandering aijciu'v-jiis place o' nights, evidently '■' seeking bis,..life,.;though at present the blpbd thirsty one, fyas done nothing tnok 'sanguinary than steal'.one of his 'ben's.'; " Wo" means to hire a Glas•gow imhriian.with a'big,stick and a soiledsliirtcnilar to.protect bira, and has serious; thoughts of applying to the Hon John Ballarice for some of '. the :: defehcp .force- and a torpedo to irioiint guard over Jiira, only, ho fears soraecavalry mightbe sent mounted oil that defence, borne with the'farov."

And, why Shouldn't, the young man sing out; " Hurrah'for Hogg I"'. Eht Perhaps he likes Hogg—perhaps, that is, be is u~a—pork—butcher.