A BANKRUPT SUSPENDED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4180, 1 August 1892, Page 2

A BANKRUPT SUSPENDED.

(By Special Telegram,) Wkllimoton, Monday. . In the Bankruptcy Court, the discharge of J. H. Pollock, Butcher and Tuif Commission Agom, was suspended for six months on tho ground that he had a short time previously beon through the Court, KuHlm.

Inanis verborum torrens, —Quintilfanuß,

Thirty or more years ago, given a warm Sunday afternoon, aud you might have seen and beard Hoggs at nearly every street corner iu tbe English cities. Wherever there was a vacant plot of land and an ash heap you were almost sure to find a Hogg —that is, a man of Mr A. W. Hogg's political calibro —in occupation, These were mostly large, well-fed, comfortably-coated icon, with bit; voioes; and, standing on the ash heaps, they roared—liko Bulls of Bashan they roared about the " sacred rights of labor," the absolute holiness of dirty bands, the while annointing with much and greasy flattery tho " 'omy-'auded sons of toil," who smoking clay pipes contiguous, tarried for the opening of tbe" pubs," and vaguely wondered by what now sort of moil " the gent a-jawin'" wrung paunch so sleek and face so glossy from grudging Nature. Though Mr Hogg has declaimed at street corners in New Zealand, his chief roarings were in the paper he lately edited at Masterton. It was called tbe Star. There are different sorts of Btai-B. This was one sort, In that festive sheet" mass" waß Bet against" class" with tireless persistence, and *ith a wealth ol vituperation and in a vernacular aiike remarkable. If one tells bis fellows they are poor worms trodden on by star-spangled villaius in purple and Gne linen, and tells them so long enough and loudly enough, be will in time bo believed, Because it ia gratelul aud comfortioK, to some minds to fancy, against knowledge, that they are being wronged, For years before last eloction Mr George fieetham sat for Masterton. He is a bloated squatter, but a mild, kind, easy man who made too cocksure of winning, 'Tis ill being too sure when the foe has much voice, a good parrot-cry, and few soruples about mothods. Mr Hogg, a little to bis own surprise, was elected. He went roaring down to Wellington with the avowed object of making things snort. He came, be saw, he found his level, It was not a lofty level. One or two tastes of bis quality be gave the House, then even Mr Hogg knew members pined not for biß roar, which is raucous. He rose to roar. Members rose to leave, They left early and often. Mr Hogg wrote that they were frightened. He wrote truth. They were frightened; of him, his voice, and for tbe drums of their own ears. Mr Hogg is a largish man, and a shiny in appearance, His complexion is ruddy, his eyes uneasy. It may be that certain modes of thought and speeoh have writ their sigo-manua upon his countenance. For tbe rest he is as his Maker made him, I, for one, am too rovorsnt to play oritio to that Maker's handiwork, The man is shrewd of his sort, persistent, not easily abashed, and fairly ready at retort, which is seldom retort courteous. He is a most inconsequent but strident and hectoring speaker. He acts on occasion as a kind of deputy' sub - assistant Government " cbucker-out." Ho does not pretend to tho lighter graces of manner and diction. The bluff, hearty, rough-and-ready '! Man of the People' is his t'oli N'atliless the coin rings dully. Such men may come towards the front in time of riot or strife, They quickly fail to rear and oblivion. They are sometimes appeased with a gauger'B place, or, if of higher education, with a County Court judgeship. Then they become Tories, They lack tbe grim intent, tbe abandon, tbe scorn of death, which ho who would lead men when blood runs free must hove, Just now a brief 1 summer's political madness holds New Zealand. When that passes, 1 Mr Hogg will pass from our politioal 1 life aa passes tog, sun-scofM-Chrislchmh Pms,