The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3825, 2 June 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1891.

The Evening Post, quoting our objection to the appointment of any member of a secret society as a Justice of the Peace, says : •• A more ridiculous objection was never urged. If all Freemapons, Oddfellows, Foresters, Druids, Knights of Labor, &c, were excluded from judicial position, the best men engaged in the administration of the law would be excluded. In some of the colonies, the Chief Justice will be disqualified, and we are by no means sure that the Superior Courts in New Zealand would be unaffected." If the editor otour Wellington contemporary refers again to our remarks he will find that he has somewhat misapprehended them. Our contention was that members of a secret political society were not eligible. If Freemasons, Oddfellows, Foresters, &c, are secret political societies, we will admit the argument of the Post, but if they are not it falls to the ground,

Bicycling among glass bottles is an easy task compared to that which our local contemporary has undertaken in justifying his attitude towards the Temperance party. He expresses his contempt for a Wellington journal which has sold its columns to the Labour party, and winds up by saying that he will give no columns to the Temperance party, admitting in other words that he will sell his columns after the manner of the Wellington paper which he has condemned. He had better console himself with the schnapps to which he refers, rub the ointment into the sore under which he winces, and say no more about it. j He only stirs up more mud trying to explain away his action la offering to sell a news column to the Temperance people for the small sum of three shillings and sixpence per week, and then slating them because they did not think the game worth the candle.