CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3795, 27 April 1891, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Tie Visit of th» Liberal Luminaries

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Is it possible! We have bad here, in this great centre of intellectual liberalism, a visit from the Top Light and a Second Star of the brilliant and popular Government, and yet we have had no demonstration, -no hooroosh, (ionise the language of the majority of the Liberal pillar-posts). These great luminaries of,an advanced burstingup &nd shifting-of-pohcemen-policy have been actually driven away in a second hand turn-out from that centre of enlightened political discussion, the Club verandah, without so much as the waving of a hat. It is true the great Top-light himself did raise his chapeau, bat as no one took the slightest notice of the incident it does not count for much. Yet there was a galaxy of talent and hang-the-odds Liberalism in that second hand turn* out sufficient to have aroused enthusiasm in any Knight of Labour or Liberal 'breast. -Was there not there the smiling and would-be-at-ease M.H.R., the Ancient Mariner trying to fix the chief Top Light with his glittering eye: while he recounted the dangers of landing at Petone and of crossing the Bimntaka Alps in the time of Noah, also the intelligent and would-be J.P. These alone, had the hardy sobb of toil from the primeval forest been present in' any number, would have been sufficient'to have v raised that cheerj that demonstration, however slight, that sympathy, that touch which would lead us to suppose that someone in community cared for them a Excuse me, sir, I nearly had a lapsus calami. Well, sir, this brilliant cortege left the political centre I have before alluded to much in the manner of the burial of Sir John Moore, there was certainly no beat of drum. In fact, the whole turn out reminded me of one of those interesting local events wheD the successful tenderers for a bushfalling or other job leave ior the scene of their labours, only that on such occasions there is usually, soma little exhibition of good will. Is it possible, sir, that if you withdraw that gentle mob of enthusiasts we saw congregated outside the Star office at the last election, whose stake in 'he country waa carried ander their finger nails, that.gentleinoh whose idea ;Of a leader, is one who will, at election time, pitch into anything which , represents the solid stake of a stand-by-the-Colony settler-; 13 it possible, I say, that if you withdraw this element from our midst there is very little sympathy left for these modern lights of Liberalism? Is it thus all over the Colony? Such, sir, are some of the reflections forced on your humble correspondent, on seeing our main street alive -.with, people, yet allowing these regenerators of the human race, these Don Quixot's of self sacrifice, to leave our midst without some small sign that forthey and their works we cared a . Excuse more sir, that lapsus calamgmlis on me again. I am,&c., QUBEN-stbket.